OXFORD 9000
📚 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…