thin
/ˈθɪn/ verb C2- To make thin or thinner.
- To become thin or thinner. · The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
- To dilute.
- To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
He/she/it thins · Past thinned · Past participle thinned · -ing form thinning
Verb forms
- Base form
- thin
- He/she/it
- thins
- Past
- thinned
- Past participle
- thinned
- -ing form
- thinning
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled now.
His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.
Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome.
Then Oz painted it on the inside with a coat of thin glue, to make it airtight, after which he announced that the balloon was ready.
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