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thin out

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Verb1.thin out - make sparse; "thin out the young plants"
cut down, reduce, trim back, trim down, cut, cut back, trim, bring down - cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
prune, snip, lop, cut back, clip, crop, trim, dress - cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
2.thin out - become sparser; "Towards the end of town, the houses thinned out"
decrease, diminish, lessen, fall - decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
3.thin out - lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
weaken - lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body"
water down - make less strong or intense; "water down the mixture"
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? thin out
vi (fog)sich lichten, schwächer werden; (crowd)kleiner werden; (audience)sich lichten; (hair)sich lichten, schütter werden; the trees started thinning outdie Bäume lichteten sich
vt sep hairausdünnen; seedlings alsoverziehen; forestlichten; populationverkleinern


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