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trial : affliction, suffering, distress, sorrow, trouble,
trick : cheat, swindle, beguile / / verb [transitive]

1 to persuade or trick someone into doing something, especially by saying nice things to them: Carr beguiled the voters with his good looks and grand talk.

2 literary to do something that makes the time pass, especially in an enjoyable way, deceive, defraud, delude

trifling : trivial, insignificant, unimportant, petty, negligible,
slight
trim1 / / trimmed, trimming verb [transitive]

1 CUT to make something look neater by cutting small pieces off it: Your hair needs trimming. | Can you trim the hedge?

2 REDUCE to remove parts of a plan to reduce its cost: We need to trim the Defence budget by a further ?00m.

3 DECORATE [usually passive] to decorate the edges of clothes by adding a piece of different material : trim sth with: a dress trimmed with lace

4 SAIL to move the sails of a boat into a position that makes the boat go faster

5 trim your sails informal to spend less money

trim sth off phrasal verb [transitive]

to cut small pieces off something so that it looks neater: Trim off the ragged edges. : clip1 / / noun

1 FOR FASTENING [countable] a small metal or plastic object for holding or fastening things together: Fasten the microphone clip to your shirt front. | hair clip (=a piece of metal or plastic for keeping hair in the right place)

뾱ee also bulldog 쟠lip, paperclip

2 CUT [singular] a process in which you make something shorter or tidier by cutting it: I'll have to give that hedge a clip.

3 FILM [countable] a short part of a film that is shown by itself: Clips from Mel Gibson's new movie

4 a clip round the ear/earhole BrE informal a short blow on the side of someone's head

5 GUN [countable] a container for bullets which passes them rapidly into the gun so that they can be fired

6 NEWSPAPER [countable] an article that is cut from a newspaper or magazine for a particular reason

7 $100/50 cents etc a clip AmE informal if things cost $100, 50 cents etc a clip, they cost that amount of money each

8 at a good/fair etc clip quickly: Traffic was going by at a fair clip.

9 WOOL [countable] AustrE, NZE the total amount of wool that is taken from a group of sheep at one time

, prune1 / / verb [transitive]

1 also prune back to cut some of the branches of a tree or bush to make it grow better: I need to prune the roses this weekend.

2 also prune down to get rid of the unnecessary parts of something: The essay's too long, you need to prune it down.