thin out

English

Verb

thin out (third-person singular simple present thins out, present participle thinning out, simple past and past participle thinned out)

(transitive) To make sparse; to remove some of a group of newly-planted plants in order to allow the remaining ones to grow unimpeded
(intransitive) To become sparse.
- 1975, Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue
  And later on, when the crowd thinned out
  
  I was just about to do the same
  
  She was standing there in back of my chair
  
  Said to me, "Don't I know your name?"

Translations

to make sparse

Czech: protrhat
Finnish: harventaa (fi)
French: (agriculture) démarier (fr), éclaircir (fr)

German: ausdünnen
Spanish: dispersar (es)
Walloon: (agriculture) treråyî (wa), distrocler (wa), asclairi

to become sparse

Czech: prořídnout, řídnout
Finnish: harventua (fi), harveta

Spanish: dispersar (es) (pronominal)

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Norman: ^{(please verify)} dêdoublier (Jersey)

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