Crossword-Solution: THINNING 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Thinning p. pr. & vb. n. of Thin

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Losing density 1 answer
Watering down 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with THINNING (5)

About one o’clock in the afternoon the thinning remnant of a cloud of the black vapour appeared between the arches of Blackfriars Bridge.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
Then the Isosceles classes, asserting that the Specimens were no longer used nor needed, and refusing to pay the customary tribute from the Criminal classes to the service of Education, waxed daily more numerous and more insolent on the strength of their immunity from the old burden which had formerly exercised the twofold wholesome effect of at once taming their brutal nature and thinning their excessive numbers.
Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1994
Fear not!” The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
First of all, I may say generally that the clouds were thinning then, and that they broke shortly afterwards.
The Stark Munro Letters J. Stark Munro 1995
Made one with hissing blackness, caught, embraced, By splendor and by striving and swift haste -- Spring coming in with thunderings and strife -- I stamped the ground in the strong joy of life! The City Revisited The grey gulls drift across the bay Softly and still as flakes of snow Against the thinning fog.
Young Adventure Stephen Vincent Benet 1995

Quotes with THINNING (3)

The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Anything else you want to discuss before we begin?”“Who cuts your hair? You should run them through with their own thinning shears. You have a wonderful face, and so much wasted potential for — ”He stepped forward and grabbed my ear. “Ow!
J.A. Rock The Subs Club
The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had been turned, the book was so heavy in one hand, so light in the other, thinning toward the end. Still, you consoled yourself. You were not quite at the end of the story, at that terrible flyleaf, blank like a shuttered window: there were still a few pages under your thumb, still to be sought and treasured. Oh, was it possible to read more slowly? - No.…
Sofia Samatar A Stranger in Olondria
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, USA TODAY.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1999–2023).