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thin
Averb
reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
 take off weight
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dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut
 lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
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thin
 make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution"
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thin
 lose thickness; become thin or thinner
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Badjective
sparse, thin
 not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"
thin, lean
 lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
thin
 (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry"
thin
 lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile"
flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin
 having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"
thin
 of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint"
thin
 relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous; "air is thin at high altitudes"; "a thin soup"; "skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk"; "thin oil"
slender, thin
 very narrow; "a thin line across the page"
Cadverb
thinly, thin
 without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin"

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