Words that rhyme with skim

• bedim 0
  v 1: make darker and difficult to perceive by sight [syn: benight, bedim] 2: make obscure or unclear; "The distinction was obscured" [syn: obscure, bedim, overcloud]
• brim 0
  n 1: the top edge of a vessel or other container [syn: brim, rim, lip] 2: a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat v 1: be completely full; "His eyes brimmed with tears" 2: fill as much as possible; "brim a cup to good fellowship"
• dim 0
  adj 1: lacking in light; not bright or harsh; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music" [syn: dim, subdued] 2: lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" [syn: dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy] 3: made dim or less bright; "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner" [syn: dimmed, dim] [ant: bright, undimmed] 4: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" [syn: black, bleak, dim] 5: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow] v 1: switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam [syn: dim, dip] 2: become dim or lusterless; "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose" 3: make dim or lusterless; "Time had dimmed the silver" 4: make dim by comparison or conceal [syn: blind, dim] 5: become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" [syn: blur, dim, slur] [ant: focalise, focalize, focus]
• grim 0
  adj 1: not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood" [syn: grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting] 2: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" [syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick] 3: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" [syn: black, grim, mordant] 4: harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie [syn: dour, forbidding, grim] 5: filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited] 6: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
• gym 0
  n 1: athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training [syn: gymnasium, gym]
• hymn 0
  n 1: a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation) [syn: hymn, anthem] v 1: sing a hymn 2: praise by singing a hymn; "They hymned their love of God"
• limb 0
  n 1: one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper 2: any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree [syn: limb, tree branch] 3: (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet 4: either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip; "the upper limb of the bow" 5: the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles; "the limb of the sextant" 6: any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm; "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer" [syn: arm, branch, limb]
• limn 0
  v 1: trace the shape of [syn: delineate, limn, outline] 2: make a portrait of; "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba" [syn: portray, depict, limn]
• prim 0
  adj 1: affectedly dainty or refined [syn: dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee] 2: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight- laced, victorian] v 1: assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim" 2: contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food" 3: dress primly [syn: prim, prim up, prim out]
• rim 0
  n 1: the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object 2: (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended; "the ball hit the rim and bounced off" 3: the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached 4: a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object [syn: flange, rim] 5: the top edge of a vessel or other container [syn: brim, rim, lip] v 1: run around the rim of; "Sugar rimmed the dessert plate" 2: furnish with a rim; "rim a hat" 3: roll around the rim of; "the ball rimmed the basket"
• scrim 0
  n 1: a firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater
• shim 0
  n 1: a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
• slim 0
  adj 1: being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street" [syn: slender, slight, slim, svelte] 2: small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus" [syn: slender, slim] v 1: take off weight [syn: reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down] [ant: gain, put on]
• swim 0
  n 1: the act of swimming; "it was the swimming they enjoyed most": "they took a short swim in the pool" [syn: swimming, swim] v 1: travel through water; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank" 2: be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom [syn: float, swim] [ant: go down, go under, settle, sink] 3: be dizzy or giddy; "my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne" 4: be covered with or submerged in a liquid; "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy" [syn: swim, drown] 5: move as if gliding through water; "this snake swims through the soil where it lives"
• trim 0
  adj 1: thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise" [syn: spare, trim] 2: of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat" [syn: shipshape, trim, well-kept] 3: neat and smart in appearance; "a clean-cut and well-bred young man"; "the trig corporal in his jaunty cap"; "a trim beard" [syn: clean-cut, trig, trim] 4: severely simple in line or design; "a neat tailored suit"; "tailored curtains" [syn: tailored, trim] n 1: a state of arrangement or appearance; "in good trim" [syn: trim, trimness] 2: a decoration or adornment on a garment; "the trimming on a hat"; "the trim on a shirt" [syn: trimming, trim, passementerie] 3: attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation 4: cutting down to the desired size or shape [syn: trim, trimming, clipping] v 1: remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber" [syn: pare, trim] 2: decorate, as with ornaments; "trim the christmas tree"; "trim a shop window" 3: cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" [syn: reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down] 4: balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces; "trim an airplane" 5: be in equilibrium during a flight; "The airplane trimmed" 6: decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods [syn: trim, garnish, dress] 7: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back] 8: cut closely; "trim my beard" [syn: shave, trim] 9: adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used
• vim 0
  n 1: a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor" [syn: energy, vim, vitality] 2: an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style" [syn: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim]
• whim 0
  n 1: a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse" [syn: caprice, impulse, whim] 2: an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it" [syn: notion, whim, whimsy, whimsey]
• grimm 0
  n 1: the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859) [syn: Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Karl Grimm] 2: the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863) [syn: Grimm, Jakob Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm]
• mckim 0
  n 1: United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909) [syn: McKim, Charles Follen McKim]
• prelim 0
  n 1: a minor match preceding the main event [syn: preliminary, prelim] 2: an examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue [syn: preliminary examination, preliminary exam, prelim]
• patronym 0
  n 1: a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor) [syn: patronymic, patronym]
• nim 0
  n 1: game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table
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