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Synonyms for thinning

Grammar : Verb
Spell : thin
Phonetic Transcription : θɪn

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Définition of thinning

Origin :
  • Old English þynne "narrow, lean, scanty," from Proto-Germanic *thunnuz, *thunw- (cf. West Frisian ten, Middle Low German dunne, Dutch dun, Old High German dunni, German dünn, Old Norse þunnr), from PIE *tnus-, *tnwi-, from weak grade of root *ten- "stretch" (cf. Latin tenuis "thin, slender;" see tenet).
  • These our actors ... were all Spirits, and Are melted into Ayre, into thin Ayre. [Shakespeare, "The Tempest," IV.i.150, 1610]
  • Thin-skinned is attested from 1590s; the figurative sense of "touchy" is from 1670s.
  • verb make diluted or less dense
Example sentences :
  • She had a faded, washed-out look, and her hair was thinning out.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • “They are there,” said I, surveying from my vantage-ground the thinning ranks.
  • Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
  • The timber was being neglected, there was no thinning and no planting.
  • Extract from : « The Nebuly Coat » by John Meade Falkner
  • Pruning a tree is a way of thinning the fruit and a good one.
  • Extract from : « Apple Growing » by M. C. Burritt
  • The bank deposits were thinning, and the vein was thinning with it.
  • Extract from : « The Cross-Cut » by Courtney Ryley Cooper
  • I can only opine that my blood is not thinning with the desired celerity.
  • Extract from : « Fibble, D. D. » by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
  • Whether the pruning has been good; the thinning; the spraying.
  • Extract from : « The Apple-Tree » by L. H. Bailey
  • There was no exterminating them—no thinning them—no escaping from them by night or by day.
  • Extract from : « Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands » by Mary Seacole
  • The East was winning on the West in heaven, and the dusk was thinning.
  • Extract from : « The Short Works of George Meredith » by George Meredith
  • "I'd have been on their side," Alice said, thinning her lips.
  • Extract from : « The Night of the Long Knives » by Fritz Reuter Leiber

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