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  Thin \Thin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thinned; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Thinning.] [Cf. AS. ge[thorn]ynnian.]
     To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).
     [1913 Webster]

  Thin \Thin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thinned; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Thinning.] [Cf. AS. ge[thorn]ynnian.]
     To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).

  thin
       adj 1: of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite
              or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon
              blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint" [ant:
              thick]
       2: lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin";
          "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare [syn:
           lean] [ant: fat]
       3: very narrow; "a thin line across the page" [syn: slender]
       4: having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse";
          "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"
          [syn: flimsy, slight, tenuous]
       5: not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse" [syn: sparse]
       6: relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not
          viscous; "air is thin at high altitudes"; "a thin soup";
          "skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk"; "thin oil"
          [ant: thick]
       7: (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry"
          [ant: full]
       8: lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile"
       adv : without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin" [syn: thinly]
             [ant: thickly]
       v 1: lose thickness; become thin or thinner [ant: thicken]
       2: make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution" [ant: thicken]
       3: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut
          bourbon" [syn: dilute, thin out, reduce, cut]
       4: take off weight [syn: reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim,
           slenderize, slim down] [ant: gain]
       [also: thinning, thinned, thinnest, thinner]

  thinning
       n : the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with
           water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine" [syn: cutting]

  thinning
       See thin

  thinning
     a.
     Becoming less thick, dense, or numerous
     n.
     1 (lb en agriculture forestry) Process of removing plants or parts of
  plants to facilitate the growth of other plants
     2 (lb en agriculture forestry) Wood, leaves, or other plant parts
  removed during the process of thinning
     3 The action or result of reducing thickness, density, or number
     vb.
     (present participle of en thin nocat=1)

  thinning
     a.
     Becoming less thick, dense, or numerous
     n.
     1 (lb en agriculture forestry) Process of removing plants or parts of
  plants to facilitate the growth of other plants
     2 (lb en agriculture forestry) Wood, leaves, or other plant parts
  removed during the process of thinning
     3 The action or result of reducing thickness, density, or number
     vb.
     (present participle of en thin nocat=1)

  thinning
     a.
     Becoming less thick, dense, or numerous
     n.
     1 (lb en agriculture forestry) Process of removing plants or parts of
  plants to facilitate the growth of other plants
     2 (lb en agriculture forestry) Wood, leaves, or other plant parts
  removed during the process of thinning
     3 The action or result of reducing thickness, density, or number
     vb.
     (present participle of en thin nocat=1)

  thinning
     a.
     Becoming less thick, dense, or numerous
     n.
     1 (lb en agriculture forestry) Process of removing plants or parts of
  plants to facilitate the growth of other plants
     2 (lb en agriculture forestry) Wood, leaves, or other plant parts
  removed during the process of thinning
     3 The action or result of reducing thickness, density, or number
     vb.
     (present participle of en thin nocat=1)

  thinning
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en thin ordform=prespart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb thin)

  Thinning /θˈɪnɪŋ/
  التخفيف

  thinning /θˈɪnɪŋ/
  ztenčování

  thinning /θˈɪnɪŋ/
   [eko] probírka

  thinning /θˈɪnɪŋ/
  Mächtigkeitsabnahme  [min.]
     Synonym: convergence
  

  thinning /θˈɪnɪŋ/
  dünn/schütter werdend, dünner werdend
     Synonyms: getting thin, diminishing in thickness
  
   see: thin, get thin, diminish in thickness, thinned, got thin, diminished in thickness
  

  thinning /θˈɪnɪŋ/
  sich lichtend
        "Traffic was finally thinning."  - Der Verkehr lockerte sich endlich auf.
     Synonym: clearing
  
   see: thin, clear, thinned, cleared
  

  thinning /θˈɪnɪŋ/
  verdünnend, dünner machend
   see: thin, thinned, thins, thinned
  

  thinning /θˈɪnɪŋ/
  fogyasztás (testsúlyé)

  
/ˈθɪnɪŋ/

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "thinning":
     Sanforizing, abatement, adulteration, atrophy, attenuation,
     attrition, blunting, consumption, contour plowing, cultivating,
     cultivation, culture, cutting, damping, deadening, debilitation,
     devitalization, diluent, dilution, dissolvent, dressing, drying,
     drying up, dulling, effemination, emaceration, emaciation,
     enervation, enfeeblement, etherealization, evisceration,
     exhaustion, extenuation, fallowing, fatigue, furrowing, harrowing,
     hoeing, inanition, languishment, listing, mitigation, parching,
     plowing, preshrinkage, pruning, rarefaction, reduction, relaxation,
     resolutive, resolvent, searing, shrinkage, shrinking, shriveling,
     slackening, softening, solvent, subtilization, tilling, wasting,
     weakening, weeding, withering, working
  
  

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