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thin
Overview of verb thin
The verb thin has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) thin -- (lose thickness; become thin or thinner)
2. thin -- (make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution")
3. dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut -- (lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon")
4. reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down -- (take off weight)
Overview of adj thin
The adj thin has 8 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)
1. (17) 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")
2. (15) thin, lean -- (lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare)
3. (7) slender, thin -- (very narrow; "a thin line across the page")
4. (2) flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin -- (having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot")
5. (2) sparse, thin -- (not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse")
6. (1) 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")
7. thin -- ((of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry")
8. thin -- (lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile")
Overview of adv thin
The adv thin has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. thinly, thin -- (without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin")
Grep of noun thin
cephalothin
christ within
lecithin
light within
strophanthin
thin-leaved bilberry
thin-leaved stringybark
thin-shelled mussel
thin air
thin person
thing
thing-in-itself
thingamabob
thingamajig
thingmabob
thingmajig
things
thingumabob
thingumajig
thingummy
think
think factory
think piece
think tank
thinker
thinking
thinking cap
thinner
thinness
thinning
thinning shears
zeaxanthin
Antonyms of verb thin
2 of 4 senses of thin
Sense 1
thin
Antonym of thicken (Sense 2)
=>thicken, inspissate
Sense 2
thin
Antonym of thicken (Sense 1)
=>thicken, inspissate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb thin
4 senses of thin
Sense 1
thin
=> change state, turn
=> change
Sense 2
thin
=> reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down
=> decrease, lessen, minify
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 3
dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut
=> weaken
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 4
reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
=> change state, turn
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb thin
3 of 4 senses of thin
Sense 2
thin
=> draw
Sense 3
dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut
=> water down
Sense 4
reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
=> sweat off
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb thin
4 senses of thin
Sense 1
thin
=> change state, turn
Sense 2
thin
=> reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down
Sense 3
dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut
=> weaken
Sense 4
reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
=> change state, turn
'Cause To' of verb thin
1 of 4 senses of thin
Sense 2
thin
=> thin
Derived Forms of verb thin
2 of 4 senses of thin
Sense 2
thin
RELATED TO>(noun) thinner#1
=> dilutant, diluent, thinner
Sense 3
dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut
RELATED TO>(noun) thinner#1
=> dilutant, diluent, thinner
RELATED TO>(noun) thinning#1
=> cutting, thinning
Domain of verb thin
Domain Terms of verb thin
Familiarity of verb thin
thin used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Sample Sentences of verb thin
4 senses of thin
Sense 1
thin
*> Something ----s
Sense 2
thin
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 3
dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 4
reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
*> Somebody ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb thin
4 senses of thin
Sense 1
thin
> change state, turn
=> wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken
=> zonk out, pass out, black out
=> come to, revive, resuscitate
=> tense, tense up
=> relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down
=> reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
=> gain, put on
=> dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel
=> cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise
=> conceive
=> secularize, secularise
=> citrate
=> equilibrate
=> fall
=> become, go, get
=> worsen, decline
=> better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate
=> disengage
=> overgrow
=> concentrate
=> break
=> acidify, acetify
=> alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify
=> ionize, ionise
=> ossify
=> catalyze, catalyse
=> get worse, relapse
=> fluctuate
=> explode, burst forth, break loose
=> die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
=> be born
=> cloud over
=> carbonize, carbonise
=> cool, chill, cool down
=> heat, hot up, heat up
=> carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise
=> freeze
=> boil
=> burn, combust
=> emaciate
=> Frenchify
=> thin
=> thicken, inspissate
=> solvate
=> react
=> dissolve, fade out, fade away
=> empty, discharge
=> fill, fill up
=> homogenize, homogenise
=> homogenize, homogenise
=> curdle, clabber, clot
=> clot, coagulate
=> sour, turn, ferment, work
=> integrate
=> precipitate
=> calcify
=> coke
=> carnify
=> chondrify
=> emulsify
=> denitrify
=> esterify
=> etherify
=> thrombose
=> open, open up
=> close, shut
=> sorb, take up
=> calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it
=> thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish
=> emancipate, liberate
=> get into, tangle with
=> liquefy
=> erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate
Sense 2
thin
> reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down
=> shorten
=> quench
=> retrench
=> slash
=> thin out
=> thin
=> take away, detract
=> deflate
=> inflate
=> shave, knock off
Sense 3
dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut
> weaken
=> de-energize, de-energise
=> break
=> devitalize, devitalise
=> shake
=> depress
=> unbrace
=> etiolate
=> cripple, stultify
=> dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut
=> rarefy, attenuate
=> blunt
=> temper, season, mollify
=> enfeeble, debilitate, drain
=> enervate
=> dampen
=> neutralize, neutralise, nullify, negate
=> emasculate, castrate
=> wash out
Sense 4
reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
> change state, turn
=> wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken
=> zonk out, pass out, black out
=> come to, revive, resuscitate
=> tense, tense up
=> relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down
=> reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
=> gain, put on
=> dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel
=> cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise
=> conceive
=> secularize, secularise
=> citrate
=> equilibrate
=> fall
=> become, go, get
=> worsen, decline
=> better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate
=> disengage
=> overgrow
=> concentrate
=> break
=> acidify, acetify
=> alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify
=> ionize, ionise
=> ossify
=> catalyze, catalyse
=> get worse, relapse
=> fluctuate
=> explode, burst forth, break loose
=> die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
=> be born
=> cloud over
=> carbonize, carbonise
=> cool, chill, cool down
=> heat, hot up, heat up
=> carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise
=> freeze
=> boil
=> burn, combust
=> emaciate
=> Frenchify
=> thin
=> thicken, inspissate
=> solvate
=> react
=> dissolve, fade out, fade away
=> empty, discharge
=> fill, fill up
=> homogenize, homogenise
=> homogenize, homogenise
=> curdle, clabber, clot
=> clot, coagulate
=> sour, turn, ferment, work
=> integrate
=> precipitate
=> calcify
=> coke
=> carnify
=> chondrify
=> emulsify
=> denitrify
=> esterify
=> etherify
=> thrombose
=> open, open up
=> close, shut
=> sorb, take up
=> calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it
=> thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish
=> emancipate, liberate
=> get into, tangle with
=> liquefy
=> erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb thin
Sense 1
thin
=> change state, turn
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Sense 2
thin
=> reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down
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Sense 3
dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut
=> weaken
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Sense 4
reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
=> change state, turn
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Grep of verb thin
thin
thin out
think
think about
think back
think of
think out
think over
think the world of
think twice
think up
wear thin
Antonyms of adj thin
8 senses of thin
Sense 1
thin (vs. thick)
thick (vs. thin)
=> deep
=> deep-chested
=> fat
=> four-ply
=> heavy
=> heavy
=> quilted
=> thickened
=> three-ply
=> two-ply
Sense 2
thin (vs. fat), lean
fat (vs. thin)
=> abdominous, paunchy, potbellied
=> blubbery
=> buxom, chubby, embonpoint, plump, zaftig, zoftig
=> compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset
=> corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund
=> double-chinned, jowly, loose-jowled
=> dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby, roly-poly
=> fattish
=> fleshy, heavy, overweight
=> gross, porcine
=> portly, stout
Sense 3
slender, thin
INDIRECT (VIA narrow) -> wide, broad
Sense 4
flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin
INDIRECT (VIA weak) -> strong
Sense 5
sparse, thin
INDIRECT (VIA distributed) -> concentrated
Sense 6
thin (vs. thick)
thick (vs. thin)
=> clogged, clotted
=> coagulable
=> coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumous, grumose
=> creamy
=> dense, heavy, impenetrable
=> gelatinous, gelatinlike, jellylike
=> ropy, ropey, stringy, thready
=> soupy
=> syrupy, viscous
=> thickened
Sense 7
thin (vs. full)
full (vs. thin)
=> booming, stentorian
=> grumbling, rumbling
=> plangent
=> rich
=> orotund, rotund, round, pear-shaped
=> heavy, sonorous
=> sounding
Sense 8
thin
INDIRECT (VIA spiritless) -> spirited
Similarity of adj thin
8 senses of thin
Sense 1
thin (vs. thick)
=> bladed
=> capillary, hairlike
=> compressed, flat
=> depressed
=> diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby
=> filamentous, filiform, filamentlike, threadlike, thready
=> fine
=> flimsy, light
=> hyperfine
=> paper thin
=> papery
=> ribbonlike, ribbony
=> sleazy
=> slender
=> tenuous
=> wafer-thin
Also See> narrow#1; thin#2, lean#1
Sense 2
thin (vs. fat), lean
=> anorexic, anorectic
=> bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
=> deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed
=> gangling, gangly, lanky
=> lank, spindly
=> rawboned
=> reedy, reedlike
=> twiggy, twiglike
=> scarecrowish
=> scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy
=> shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened
=> slender, slight, slim, svelte
=> slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted
=> spare, trim
=> spindle-legged, spindle-shanked
=> stringy, wiry
=> wisplike, wispy
Also See> ectomorphic#1; thin#1
Sense 3
slender, thin
=> narrow (vs. wide)
Sense 4
flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin
=> weak (vs. strong)
Sense 5
sparse, thin
=> distributed (vs. concentrated)
Sense 6
thin (vs. thick)
=> tenuous
=> rare, rarefied, rarified
Sense 7
thin (vs. full)
=> pale
Sense 8
thin
=> spiritless (vs. spirited)
Pertainyms of adj thin
Attributes of adj thin
3 of 8 senses of thin
Sense 1
thin (vs. thick)
=> thickness
Sense 2
thin (vs. fat), lean
=> body weight
Sense 6
thin (vs. thick)
=> thickness
=> consistency, consistence, body
Domain of adj thin
Domain Terms of adj thin
Familiarity of adj thin
thin used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =8)
Grep of adj thin
paper thin
thin
thin-bodied
thin-shelled
thin-skinned
thinkable
thinking
thinned
wafer-thin
Antonyms of adv thin
Synonyms of adv thin
1 sense of thin
Sense 1
thinly, thin
Pertainyms of adv thin
Domain of adv thin
Domain Terms of adv thin
Familiarity of adv thin
thin used as an adverb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Grep of adv thin
out of thin air
thin
thinly
wafer-thin
within
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