Dictionary Entry

thinning

To make thin or thinner.

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Common Phrases

. thinninghair thinningthinning shear

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Poetry examples for “thinning”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Up and up, from shoot to shoot--
And the blessed bean-stalk thinning
Like the mischief all the time,

Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom
Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals

Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom
Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals

Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom
Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals

middle,
But O from the hills how the cannon were thinning and thinning them!

Like winds that lash the waves, or smite
The woods, the autumnal foliage thinning--
"Hold!" said the Squire, "I pray you, hold! 1820.