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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Thin \Thin\, verb (used with an object) [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).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
thin
adjective
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"
adverb: without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin" [syn: {thinly}] [ant: {thickly}]
verb
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}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
thinning
noun: the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine" [syn: {cutting}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
thinning See {thin}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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