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thinner

/ˈθɪnɚ/ sustantivo A2
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 43 · B2
He gets paler and thinner, and he eats nothing.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 29 · B2
It struck me that he was looking even paler and thinner than usual.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 102 · B2
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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 9 · C1

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