THINNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thinned mean? 

• THINNED (adjective)
  The adjective THINNED has 1 sense:

1. mixed with water

  Familiarity information: THINNED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THINNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mixed with water

Synonyms:

cut; thinned; weakened

Context example:

a cup of thinned soup

Similar:

dilute; diluted (reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity)

 Context examples 

An early hydrogen-rich atmosphere on Mars could also explain how the planet remained habitable after its atmosphere thinned.

(Asteroids, Hydrogen Make Great Recipe for Life on Mars, NASA)

Gradually the leaves thinned around me, and I was aware, from the wind upon my face, that I had topped all the trees of the forest.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scientists previously found that mice fed low levels of common dietary emulsifiers developed altered gut microbiota and a thinned mucus barrier protecting the lining of their intestines.

(Food additives promote inflammation, colon cancer in mice, National Institutes of Health)

Our very finger-tips seemed to meet, ere she thinned away like a mist in the sunshine.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had scarcely filled away, it seemed, when the fog thinned abruptly and we were again in the sunshine, the wide-stretching sea breaking before us to the sky-line.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Pine Island Glacier has thinned and retreated at an alarming rate since 1992, when satellite observations first started.

(West Antarctica's largest glacier may have started retreating as early as the 1940s, NSF)

A few seconds later a roar like thunder burst upon our ears, and as the smoke thinned away there was no sign left of the Gloria Scott.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Antarctic glaciers studied by Rignot's group have thinned so much they are now floating above places where they used to sit solidly on land, which means their grounding lines are retreating inland.

(West Antarctic Glacier loss appears unstoppable, NASA)

Weakened or thinned.

(Attenuated, NCI Dictionary)

And with them rose the cloud which had hung over the country; and it also thinned and thinned, until God’s own sun of peace and security was shining once more upon us, never more, we hope, to be bedimmed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)