thin out

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; to remove some of a group of newly-planted plants in order to allow the remaining ones to grow unimpeded
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?"

Translations

to make sparse

• Czech: protrhat
• Finnish: harventaa (fi)
• French: (agriculture) démarier (fr), éclaircir (fr)
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• German: ausdünnen
• Spanish: dispersar (es)
• Walloon: (agriculture) treråyî (wa), distrocler (wa), asclairi

to become sparse

• Czech: prořídnout, řídnout
• Finnish: harventua (fi), harveta
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• Spanish: dispersar (es) (pronominal)

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• Norman: ^{(please verify)} dêdoublier (Jersey)
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