Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thin out

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English

Syllables: thin out
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make sparse; to remove some of a group of newly-planted plants in order to allow the remaining ones to grow unimpeded.

Transitive verb

verb

To become sparse.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"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?""
"“Abandon Starbucks!” screamed a member of the staff, and his colleagues immediately stopped making coffees or bagging muffins and ran for their lives “It seems to be thinning out a little, ” announced Mr. Stink"
"The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone."

Usage

Inflected Forms

thins out (present, singular) thinning out (participle, present) thinned out (participle, past) thinned out (past)

Frequently Paired Words

prethin

Synonyms

dilute thin reduce cut

Questions

What does thin out mean?: To make sparse; to remove some of a group of newly-planted plants in order to allow the remaining ones to grow unimpeded.

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