OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 1151

thin

/θɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fino
Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
It was no mystery at all, or a mystery covered only with the thinnest and most transparent veil, that forced abortion is a common practice among Turkish women. The horrible secret…
thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering
delgado • enjuto • fifiriche • flaco • güin • raquítico
Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
thin person
aguado • claro • líquido • nada viscoso • poco espeso • ralo
Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
Water is thinner than honey.
enrarecido • ralo • rarificado
Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.
The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 1152

thin

/θɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
adelgazar
To make thin or thinner.
Exhausted fathers thinned the blood, You curse the legacy of pain; Darling of an infected brood, You feel disaster climb the vein.
adelgazar • ardalear • arralar • ralear
To become thin or thinner.
The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
diluir
To dilute.
entresacar
To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
So floriferous are Asian pears, and the tree so laden with young fruit, that as the tree approaches maturity it is worth considering thinning the fruit (I can't quite bring myself…