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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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).
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  thin
       adj 1: 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}]
       2: 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}]
       3: very narrow; "a thin line across the page" [syn: {slender}]
       4: having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse";
          "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"
          [syn: {flimsy}, {slight}, {tenuous}]
       5: not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse" [syn: {sparse}]
       6: 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}]
       7: (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry"
          [ant: {full}]
       8: lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile"
       adv : without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin" [syn: {thinly}]
             [ant: {thickly}]
       v 1: lose thickness; become thin or thinner [ant: {thicken}]
       2: make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution" [ant: {thicken}]
       3: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut
          bourbon" [syn: {dilute}, {thin out}, {reduce}, {cut}]
       4: take off weight [syn: {reduce}, {melt off}, {lose weight}, {slim},
           {slenderize}, {slim down}] [ant: {gain}]
       [also: {thinning}, {thinned}, {thinnest}, {thinner}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  thinned
       adj : mixed with water; "sold cut whiskey"; "a cup of thinned
             soup" [syn: {cut}, {weakened}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  thinned
       See {thin}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "thinned":
     adulterated, airy, attenuate, attenuated, cut, dilute, diluted,
     ethereal, fine, flimsy, gaseous, insubstantial, rare, rarefied,
     reduced, slight, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, thinned-out,
     uncompact, uncompressed, unsubstantial, vaporous, watered,
     watered-down, windy
  
  

















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