thin out
Verb
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Verb
thin out
- (transitive) To make sparse; to remove some of a group of newly-planted plants in order to allow the remaining ones to grow unimpeded
- (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?"
- 1975, Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue
- Spanish: dispersar (pronominal)
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