Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering
A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
Any food produced or served in thin slices.
chocolate mint thins
To make thin or thinner.
Exhausted fathers thinned the blood, You curse the legacy of pain; Darling of an infected brood, You feel disaster climb the vein.
To become thin or thinner.
From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Ind...
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The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
To dilute.