Thin out
verb
verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 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 lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture wordnet
- 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 make sparse wordnet
- 5 become sparser wordnet
Example
More examples"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?""