thin
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- If something is thin, there's a short distance from one side to the other.
- If something is thin it doesn't have a lot of stuff in it.
- The soup is too thin. It needs more flavour.
- His hair is quite thin on top.
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- (transitive & intransitive) If something thins, there is less of it.
- After the show, the crowd thinned out quickly and only a few people stayed.
- My hair started thinning when I was 25.