单词 | thin out |
释义 | thin out (once / 7976 pages) v WORD FAMILY thin out: thinned out, thinning out, thins out USAGE EXAMPLESKirk Cousins exploited a short-handed secondary that thinned out even more during the game by throwing for 375 yards and three touchdowns. Washington Times(Nov 21, 2016) And after the protest there thinned out, dozens of people the police described as anarchists remained in the streets, clashing with officers. New York Times(Nov 12, 2016) Over-the-counter decongestants or expectorants can also help thin out mucus so you can cough up more of it. Time(Nov 10, 2016) 1v make sparse thin out the young plants Hypo|Hyper clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of shearcut with shears poll, pollardconvert into a pollard pinch, topcut the top off disbudthin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down cut down on; make a reduction in 2v become sparser Towards the end of town, the houses thinned out Hyper decrease, diminish, fall, lessen decrease in size, extent, or range 3v lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture Syn|Hypo|Hyper cut, dilute, reduce, thin water down make less strong or intense weaken lessen the strength of |
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