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thin

adjective
  1. Having little flesh or fat on the body: angular, bony, fleshless, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean 2, meager, rawboned, scrawny, skinny, slender, slim, spare, twiggy, weedy. Idioms: all skin and bones, thin as a rail. See fat
  2. Marked by great diffusion of component particles: rare, rarefied. See tighten
  3. Lower than normal in strength or concentration due to admixture: dilute, washy, watered-down, waterish, watery, weak. See strong
  4. Conspicuously deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent: exiguous, meager, poor, puny, scant, scanty, skimpy, spare, sparse, stingy. Slang: measly. See big, excess
  5. Not plausible or believable: flimsy, implausible, improbable, inconceivable, incredible, shaky, unbelievable, unconceivable, unconvincing, unsubstantial, weak. See likely
verb
  1. To make physically thin or thinner: slim. Archaic: extenuate. See fat, increase
  2. To become diffuse: attenuate, rarefy. See tighten
  3. To lessen the strength of by or as if by admixture: attenuate, cut, dilute, water (down), weaken. See strong

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