slenderize
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She will also modify the bustle in the back to slenderize the bride.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2011
With these 600 assistants, he hoped to slenderize the Navy's 325,000 men and keep them thin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Words like suave-mannered, custom-finished, contour-conforming, mitt-back, innersole, backdip, midriff, swoosh, swash, curvaceous, slenderize and pet-smooth are flung about with evident full expectation that the reader will understand them at a glance.
From Time Magazine Archive
To slenderize his trumpet-topped columns as much as possible, he manufactured them in one piece on the site and derricked them into place.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its can was briefly slenderized to better appeal to millennials; now it’s back to its regular shape.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2022
A Matinicus Blue Rock pullover introduced at about the dawn of yacht rock was stealthily slenderized.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
Pat married so many contradictory qualities in one slenderized figure.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2016
Gradually the motif abstracted into a teardrop shape, slenderized as its Clark Kent–like top curl became exaggerated and larger.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2015
The Western Edition, aimed at a Western readership, was never much more than a slenderized Eastern Times, exported from New York.
From Time Magazine Archive
This episode has slenderizing, surface-smoothing effects on the brain.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2023
What’s funny about that is realizing that like those injectable treatments Santos boasts about, this episode has slenderizing, surface-smoothing effects on the brain.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2023
The darker hue was less likely to stain, and also slenderizing.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2022
You should think about tailoring the ties yourself, and then you should come to your senses and have a professional do the slenderizing for you.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2014
The slenderizing craze has gone far beyond the salon walls.
From Time Magazine Archive
