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thins out

thins out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 thins out

What is thins out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Thins out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of thin out.

Words near thins out in the dictionary

  1. thinolites
  2. thinozerconid
  3. thinozerconids
  4. thins
  5. thins down
  6. thins out
  7. thins the herd
  8. thins up
  9. thinset
  10. thinsets
  11. thinspiration

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