Scrimp

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To economize severely.
  • v. To be excessively sparing with or of.
  • v. To cut or make too small or scanty.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A pinching miser; a niggard.
  • v. To make too small or short; to scant; to contract; to shorten.
  • v. To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance.
  • v. To be frugal.
  • adj. Short; scanty; curtailed.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten.
  • adj. Short; scanty; curtailed.
  • n. A pinching miser; a niggard.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pinch or scant; limit closely; be sparing in the food, clothes, money, etc., of; deal sparingly with; straiten.
  • To be sparing in; narrow, straiten, stint, or contract, especially through a niggard or sparing use or allowance of something; make too small, short, or scanty; limit: as, to scrimp a coat, or the cloth for making it.
  • To be parsimonious or miserly: as, to save and scrimp.
  • Scanty; narrow; deficient; contracted.
  • n. A niggard; a pinching miser.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. subsist on a meager allowance
    • Verb Form
    scrimped    scrimping    scrimps   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    save   
    Form
    scrimped    scrimping   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    scant    contract    shorten    short    scanty   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blimp    blimp    chimp    crimp    imp   
     
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