thin out

Definitions

1. 1

   To make sparse

   To make sparse; to remove some of a group of newly-planted plants in order to allow the remaining ones to grow unimpeded.

2. 2

   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?"
   • “Abandon Starbucks!” screamed a member of the staff, and his colleagues immediately stopped making coffees or bagging muffins and ran for their lives “It seems to be thinning out a little, ” announced Mr. Stink
   • The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.

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