thinned
SayTHIND/θɪnd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of thin.
The painter thinned the varnish before brushing on the final coat.
By midnight the traffic had thinned to a slow trickle.
Note
One spelling does double duty here, and it carries the doubled n that a short vowel before a single consonant calls for: thin, thinned. The form also works two ways. Someone can thin something, as with diluted varnish or a row of seedlings cleared so the rest grow better. Or something can thin of itself, as traffic does late at night. After have, either reading fits. In the passive, only the first does.
thinned is a form of thin
thin, verb: To become thinner, sparser, or less dense over time. Full entry
- Spelling
- thin → thinned: double the n, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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