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scrimped

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Verb

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scrimped

  1. simple past and past participle of scrimp

Adjective

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scrimped (comparative more scrimped, superlative most scrimped)

  1. pinched
    • 1955, Don Marion Wolfe, Charles Irving Glicksberg, New Voices, volume 2, page 296:
      She didn't want this girl with the thin, scrimped face of a scared rabbit to be herself. It was the face of someone Fraulein had made. A little girl out of an old story book. A little German girl with huge eyes.