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thinning (root: thin)
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thinning
Sanforizing, abatement, adulteration, atrophy, attenuation, attrition, blunting, consumption, contour plowing, cultivating, cultivation, culture, cutting, damping, deadening, debilitation, devitalization, diluent, dilution, dissolvent, dressing, drying, drying up, dulling, effemination, emaceration, emaciation, enervation, enfeeblement, etherealization, evisceration, exhaustion, extenuation, fallowing, fatigue, furrowing, harrowing, hoeing, inanition, languishment, listing, mitigation, parching, plowing, preshrinkage, pruning, rarefaction, reduction, relaxation, resolutive, resolvent, searing, shrinkage, shrinking, shriveling, slackening, softening, solvent, subtilization, tilling, wasting, weakening, weeding, withering, workingFor further exploring for "thinning" in Webster Dictionary Online