thin out

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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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