thin out or
down dilute, weaken, attenuate, extenuate, rarefy; mix, adulterate, Inf water or water down, (of alchol or drugs) Inf. cut; eliminate, weed out, remove, get rid of; prune, trim, cut back.
8. Often
thin out or
down or
off decrease, lessen, become smaller; dissipate, disperse, scatter, disappear,
thing, n. 1. object, article, something, anything, it; substance, element, solid, stuff; lump of matter, matter, lump, blob; constituent, component, ingredient, building block; unit, monad, particle; entity, being, organism, creature, animal; indescribable something, Fr. je ne sais quoi substantiality, materiality, individuality, corporeity, corporeality, hyle; physicality, embodiment, incarnation.
2. item, gadget, device, contrivance, mechanism, apparatus, Fr. quelque chose, bird in the hand; widget, hickey, what's-its-name, gimmick; All Inf. doohickey, dingus, dojigger, jigger, dofunny, do-hinkey, dow-hackey; gizmo, fandangle, flumadiddle; contraption, whachamacallit, thingumajig, thingum, thingumabob, thingumadoodle, Australian, doover.
3. things matters, affairs, relations; business, concerns, work; doings, dealings, works, proceedings, operations, goings-on.
4. circumstance, situation, state of affairs, turn of events, course of events, conditions; fact, phenomenon, experience, matter, case; event, occurrence, incident, doing; happening, hap, episode, occasion.
5. action, deed, act, performance, feat; turn, exploit, move, coup, blow, stroke; adventure, proceeding, undertaking, endeavor, effort; accomplishment, achievement, doing, enterprise, measure, step.
6. particular, detail, instance, particularity, factor; item, point, special point, element, facet, minor detail, incidental detail, minutia; respect, feature, regard, aspect, reference, bearing, look.
7. aim, objective, goal, object, point, idea, purpose;