thinner
/ˈθɪnɚ/ noun A2- A liquid substance used to thin the consistency of another liquid. · Turpentine or mineral spirits can be used as a thinner for oil-based paints.
- Something that thins or thins out (another thing). · Pomegranate juice and exercise are great natural blood thinners.· The new type of mechanical thinner allowed thinning of peach blossoms to be completed earlier.
Plural thinners
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To their great joy the trees became thinner the farther they advanced, and in the afternoon they suddenly came upon a broad river, flowing swiftly just before them.
He gets paler and thinner, and he eats nothing.
It struck me that he was looking even paler and thinner than usual.
Holmes looked even thinner and keener than of old, but there was a dead-white tinge in his aquiline face which told me that his life recently had not been a healthy one.
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