Crossword clues for thinned
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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).
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: thin)
WordNet
adj. 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]
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]
very narrow; "a thin line across the page" [syn: slender]
having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot" [syn: flimsy, slight, tenuous]
not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse" [syn: sparse]
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]
(of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry" [ant: full]
lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile"
v. lose thickness; become thin or thinner [ant: thicken]
make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution" [ant: thicken]
lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon" [syn: dilute, thin out, reduce, cut]
take off weight [syn: reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, slim down] [ant: gain]
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Usage examples of "thinned".
Tagmeth had been claimed once, then abandoned as blood feuds and foreign wars thinned the ranks of the Highborn and the great houses began to gather their strength in keeps farther south.
Ahead it thinned and dropped to knee-level, leaving an arena of sorts a good fifty feet across.
Nearly two Earth years in the wilderness had thinned him down, and given him something of the feral look the others at the Helot table had.
Beyond the bridge, the giant monoliths thinned and the cleared area that was Rybatta proper began.
The other farmers could not believe that a man his age could have thinned so large a portion of his crop, for he was thick-set, and bending must have been painful.
Tranquilino, for example, blocked and thinned two rows simultaneously.
This left his right hand free to chop with the hoe, now one row, now the other, while his left thinned the multiple clumps as far ahead as he could reach.
The rumble of Hal Samdu came thinned and furred through the communicator.
It was the long-awaited voice of Giles Habibula, thinned, muffled with the hum of the instrument, and hoarse with some desperate anxiety.
Then the ground snow thinned, revealing the broad leaves of winter ferns and stripped shoots of milkweed.
The scansule tube exploded, and before the crash and bang thinned out, the door to his room swung open.
The jewel caught the light and warped it into a luminous star whose fine, bright threads of energy thinned out and re-formed with the quivering of his hand.
But while he had been immersed in his memories it had thinned to a rill, then a trickle, then flat land cracked and shrunken in the sun.
Thoughts and hunger thinned away from Nefandi as he relaxed himself, and he sensed once more a strong, steady pulse of kha somewhere to the west.
Gradually his vision wavered and thinned as the tensions inside him slackened.