thin out

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thin out

verb thins out · thinning out · thinned out

  1. transitive To make sparse; to remove some of a group of newly-planted plants in order to allow the remaining ones to grow unimpeded.
  2. intransitive To become sparse. 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?"

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verb to make sparse

Españoldispersar
Françaisdémarier, éclaircir
Deutschausdünnen, vereinzeln
עבריתדִּלֵּל dilél

verb to become sparse

Españoldispersar

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@misc{thin_out_2026,
  title = {thin out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/thin%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}