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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slimming
I.noun
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▪ An example is the once highly popular low-carbohydrate method of slimming.
▪ I was there to give some talks on motivation and slimming and had a stand displaying my books.
▪ No one should feel pressurised into slimming.
▪ When people join a slimming club they are, in effect, giving themselves a boost, a social reward for slimming.
II.adjective
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▪ Everyone, whether on a slimming diet or not, should reduce this kind of sugar to an absolute minimum.
▪ Over-eating is considered bad by the dieter, while the slimming regime is difficult but good and virtuous.
▪ Some slimming magazines also publish guides to the fat and fibre content of food.
▪ The problem is that dieting on a standard slimming regime is difficult.
▪ When people join a slimming club they are, in effect, giving themselves a boost, a social reward for slimming.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slimming

"producing an appearance of thinness," 1925, present participle adjective from slim (v.).

Wiktionary
slimming

  1. Making a person seem or become slimmer. v

  2. (present participle of slim English)

Usage examples of "slimming".

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Digest that slimming exercises and abstinences should not be embarked upon hastily.

Black is so much more slimming, though Barbs, of course, would have gone right to the top, just for the colour.

Next, she went on a crash diet of low-cal sodas, raw vegetables and canned tuna, and dry white wine, slimming down in less than a month from a size ten dress to a size six.

Her husband, Paul Frontiere, French by birth and a citizen of Eurocon, dressed in trim gray and forest-green spacewear, loose at waist and joints, slimming around wrist and ankles.