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# thinned

«thinned» in Mova's school dictionary: **Made thinner or less thick: «She thinned the paint with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (past form of «thin»: thin, thins, thinned, thinning); adjective (thinned)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Made thinner or less thick: «She thinned the paint with water». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thinned/#m1)

2) Became less crowded or less dense: «The crowd thinned». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thinned/#m2)

3) (gardening) Took out some young plants so the others have room to grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thinned/#m3)

4) (of hair) Became thinner, with less hair: «His hair thinned as he got older». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thinned/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In art: thinned paint, thinned glue. In gardening and science: seedlings are thinned. In stories: «The fog thinned», «The crowd thinned out». In cooking: thinned sauce. Phrases: «thinned out», «thinned with water».

### examples

- Mum thinned the gravy with a little water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thinned/#x1)
- The crowd thinned after the fireworks ended. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thinned/#x2)
- We thinned the carrot seedlings so they had space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thinned/#x3)
- The fog thinned and we could see the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thinned/#x4)
- Grandad's hair has thinned over the years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thinned/#x5)
- The teacher thinned the paint so it would spread easily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thinned/#x6)
- By evening, the traffic had thinned out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thinned/#x7)

### note

Double n: thin → thinned, thinning. Opposite: «thickened». «Thin out» often means to become fewer or less crowded.

### In the corpora

- [As the crowd thinned, the two boys had no one to perform for, and the shoving slowed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/393-bystanders/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thinned» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thinned/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.