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THINNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mixed with water
Example:
a cup of thinned soup
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
dilute; diluted (reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb thin
Context examples:
New research led by NASA and the University of Washington, Seattle, confirms that springtime snow on sea ice in the Arctic has thinned significantly in the last 50 years, by about a third in the Western Hemisphere and by half near Alaska.
(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)
But as the atmosphere thinned over time, larger raindrops could form and were heavy enough to cut into the soil changing the shape of craters and leading to running water that could have carved valleys.
(Heavy Rain May Have Once Fallen on Mars, VOA)
I proceeded: at last my way opened, the trees thinned a little; presently I beheld a railing, then the house—scarce, by this dim light, distinguishable from the trees; so dank and green were its decaying walls.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Old Mr. Farquhar, from whom I purchased it, had at one time an excellent general practice; but his age, and an affliction of the nature of St. Vitus’s dance from which he suffered, had very much thinned it.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The researchers found that, since the Soviet period, the spring snowpack has thinned from 14 inches to 9 inches (35 centimeters to 22 centimeters) in the western Arctic and from 13 inches to 6 inches (33 centimeters to 14.5 centimeters) in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, north and west of Alaska, despite notable uncertainty in the historical estimates.
(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)
