thin – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of thin

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to thin sth out
Participle: thinned sth out
Gerund: thinning sth out

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Ithin sth out
youthin sth out
he;she;itthins sth out
wethin sth out
youthin sth out
theythin sth out

Perfect

Ihave thinned sth out
youhave thinned sth out
he;she;ithas thinned sth out
wehave thinned sth out
youhave thinned sth out
theyhave thinned sth out

Past

Ithinned sth out
youthinned sth out
he;she;itthinned sth out
wethinned sth out
youthinned sth out
theythinned sth out

Pluperfect

Ihad thinned sth out
youhad thinned sth out
he;she;ithad thinned sth out
wehad thinned sth out
youhad thinned sth out
theyhad thinned sth out

Future

Iwill thin sth out
youwill thin sth out
he;she;itwill thin sth out
wewill thin sth out
youwill thin sth out
theywill thin sth out

Future Perfect

Iwill have thinned sth out
youwill have thinned sth out
he;she;itwill have thinned sth out
wewill have thinned sth out
youwill have thinned sth out
theywill have thinned sth out

Subjunctive

Present

Ithin sth out
youthin sth out
he;she;itthin sth out
wethin sth out
youthin sth out
theythin sth out

Perfect

Ihave thinned sth out
youhave thinned sth out
he;she;ithave thinned sth out
wehave thinned sth out
youhave thinned sth out
theyhave thinned sth out

Imperfect

Ithinned sth out
youthinned sth out
he;she;itthinned sth out
wethinned sth out
youthinned sth out
theythinned sth out

Pluperfect

Ihad thinned sth out
youhad thinned sth out
he;she;ithad thinned sth out
wehad thinned sth out
youhad thinned sth out
theyhad thinned sth out

Conditional

Present

Iwould thin sth out
youwould thin sth out
he;she;itwould thin sth out
wewould thin sth out
youwould thin sth out
theywould thin sth out

Perfect

Iwould have thinned sth out
youwould have thinned sth out
he;she;itwould have thinned sth out
wewould have thinned sth out
youwould have thinned sth out
theywould have thinned sth out

Imperative

youthin sth out
weLet's thin sth out
youthin sth out

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam thinning sth out
youare thinning sth out
he;she;itis thinning sth out
weare thinning sth out
youare thinning sth out
theyare thinning sth out

Perfect

Ihave been thinning sth out
youhave been thinning sth out
he;she;ithas been thinning sth out
wehave been thinning sth out
youhave been thinning sth out
theyhave been thinning sth out

Past

Iwas thinning sth out
youwere thinning sth out
he;she;itwas thinning sth out
wewere thinning sth out
youwere thinning sth out
theywere thinning sth out

Pluperfect

Ihad been thinning sth out
youhad been thinning sth out
he;she;ithad been thinning sth out
wehad been thinning sth out
youhad been thinning sth out
theyhad been thinning sth out

Future

Iwill be thinning sth out
youwill be thinning sth out
he;she;itwill be thinning sth out
wewill be thinning sth out
youwill be thinning sth out
theywill be thinning sth out

Future Perfect

Iwill have been thinning sth out
youwill have been thinning sth out
he;she;itwill have been thinning sth out
wewill have been thinning sth out
youwill have been thinning sth out
theywill have been thinning sth out

Conditional

Present

Iwould be thinning sth out
youwould be thinning sth out
he;she;itwould be thinning sth out
wewould be thinning sth out
youwould be thinning sth out
theywould be thinning sth out

Perfect

Iwould have been thinning sth out
youwould have been thinning sth out
he;she;itwould have been thinning sth out
wewould have been thinning sth out
youwould have been thinning sth out
theywould have been thinning sth out

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'thin'

abet, abhor, abut, acquit, admit, affrap, allot, alum, amel, amit, anagram, anvil, apparel, aret, arret, assot, astun, attrap, augur, avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'thin'

chin, shin, thig, thing, think, tin, twin, athink, bein, bin,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

dilute
weaken, diminish, reduce, attenuate, rarefy, expand

Antonyms

to make something more viscous
dilute, thicken, water down

Additional Information

Etymology

1. O.E. þynne "narrow, lean, scanty," from P.Gmc. *thunnuz, *thunw- (cf. W.Fris. ten, M.L.G. dunne, Du. dun, O.H.G. dunni, Ger. dünn, O.N. þunnr), from PIE *tnus-, *tnwi-, from weak grade of base *ten- "stretch" (cf. L. tenuis "thin, slender;" see tenet).
"These our actors ... were all Spirits, and Are melted into Ayre, into thin Ayre." [Shakespeare, "The Tempest," IV.i.150, 1610]
The verb is from O.E. þynnian "to make thin" (cf. Ger. dünnen, Du. dunnen); intrans. sense of "to become less numerous" is attested from 1743; that of "to become thinner" is recorded from 1804. Thin-skinned is attested from 1598; the fig. sense of "touchy" is from 1680.
2. From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
3. Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Polish cienki, Russian тонкий (tonkij), Sanskrit तनु (tanú, “thin”), Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous. See: Welsh 'tenau'.

Sample Sentences

  • Exhausted fathers thinned the blood,
  • You curse the legacy of pain;
  • Darling of an infected brood,
  • You feel disaster climb the vein. [1941, Theodore Roethke, “Feud”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 4:]
  • The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
  • So floriferous are Asian pears, and the tree so laden with young fruit, that as the tree approaches maturity it is worth considering thinning the fruit (I can't quite bring myself to thin the flowers) so as to neither overburden the tree for this year nor tire it for the next. Thinning early in the season, while the fruit is small, is ideal. [2015 September 5, Mark Diacono, “In praise of the Asian pear”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 12 Sep 2015, page 3:]