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thinning (root: thin)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun thinning has 1 sense
- thinning(n = noun.act) cutting - the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine" is a kind of dilution
Derived form verb thin3
THESAURUS
thinning
Sanforizing, abatement, adulteration, atrophy, attenuation, attrition, blunting, consumption, contour plowing, cultivating, cultivation, culture, cutting, damping, deadening, debilitation, devitalization, diluent, dilution, dissolvent, dressing, drying, drying up, dulling, effemination, emaceration, emaciation, enervation, enfeeblement, etherealization, evisceration, exhaustion, extenuation, fallowing, fatigue, furrowing, harrowing, hoeing, inanition, languishment, listing, mitigation, parching, plowing, preshrinkage, pruning, rarefaction, reduction, relaxation, resolutive, resolvent, searing, shrinkage, shrinking, shriveling, slackening, softening, solvent, subtilization, tilling, wasting, weakening, weeding, withering, working
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