Thin out

verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make sparse; to remove some of a group of newly-planted plants in order to allow the remaining ones to grow unimpeded. transitive
  2. 2
    lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture wordnet
  3. 3
    To become sparse. intransitive

    "And later on, when the crowd thinned out / I was just about to do the same / She was standing there in back of my chair / Said to me, "Don't I know your name?""

  4. 4
    make sparse wordnet
  5. 5
    become sparser wordnet

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