thin out

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	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" dilute, thin, reduce, cut weaken - lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body" water down - make less strong or intense; "water down the mixture"

Translations

? thin out

vi (fog) → sich lichten, schwächer werden; (crowd) → kleiner werden; (audience) → sich lichten; (hair) → sich lichten, schütter werden; the trees started thinning out → die Bäume lichteten sich

vt sep hair → ausdünnen; seedlings also → verziehen; forest → lichten; population → verkleinern