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 →

2) Became less crowded or less dense: «The crowd thinned». tree →

3) (gardening) Took out some young plants so the others have room to grow. tree →

4) (of hair) Became thinner, with less hair: «His hair thinned as he got older». tree →

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 →
• The crowd thinned after the fireworks ended. tree →
• We thinned the carrot seedlings so they had space. tree →
• The fog thinned and we could see the hills. tree →
• Grandad's hair has thinned over the years. tree →
• The teacher thinned the paint so it would spread easily. tree →
• By evening, the traffic had thinned out. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «thinned» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.