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thinned out

thinned out is the simple past and past participle of thin out.

Meaning of thin out

Verb

thin out (third-person singular simple present thins out, present participle thinning out, simple past and past participle thinned out)

  1. (transitive) To make sparse; to remove some of a group of newly-planted plants in order to allow the remaining ones to grow unimpeded.
  2. (intransitive) To become sparse.
    • 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?"1975, Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”, in Blood on the Tracks

Questions about thinned out

What is thinned out the simple past and past participle of?
Thinned out is the simple past and past participle of thin out.

Words near thinned out in the dictionary

  1. thinly
  2. thinly-veiled
  3. thinnable
  4. thinned
  5. thinned down
  6. thinned out
  7. thinned the herd
  8. thinned up
  9. thinner
  10. thinners
  11. thinness

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