slimming

Adjective

 * 1) Making a person seem or become slimmer.
 * She bought the jeans without trying them on because the salesperson said they were slimming.
 * He's trying to lose weight by drinking slimming tea.
 * That dress is very slimming on you.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 顯瘦的,  塑身衣的,  減肥的, 苗條的, 保持身材苗條的, 健美的
 * Danish: slankende
 * Finnish:
 * Turkish:, inceleştirici, sıkılaştırıcı, zayıflatıcı

Noun

 * 1) The process of making or becoming slimmer.
 * 2) * 1990, The New Law Journal (volume 139, part 1, page 130)
 * We have become accustomed to Thatcherite slimmings of the system — massive ward closures punctuated from time to time by the royal opening of an Aids unit for ten patients, but here is something new.