English

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.
2. (intransitive) To become sparse.
   • 1975, Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue

     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?"

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