'Thinning' definitions:
Definition of 'thinning'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine" [syn: cutting, thinning]
Definition of 'Thinning'
From: GCIDE
- Thin \Thin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thinned; p. pr. & vb. n. Thinning.] [Cf. AS. ge[thorn]ynnian.] To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective). [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'thinning'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Sanforizing,
- searing,
- shrinkage,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- slackening,
- softening,
- solvent,
- subtilization,
- tilling,
- wasting,
- weakening,
- weeding,
- withering,
- working
Words containing 'Thinning'
- Thin,
- Thinly,
- Thinned,
- Thinness,
- thin out,
- Thin section,
- Through thick and thin,
- out of thin air,
- paper thin,
- sparse thin,
- thin air,
- thin ice,
- thin person,
- thin skinned,
- thinning shears,
- wear thin,
- Thin-skinned,
- razor-thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-shelled,
- wafer-thin,
- Thick-and-thin block,
- thin-leaved bilberry,
- thin-leaved stringybark,
- thin-shelled mussel