"thin up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-thin up.wav Forms: thins up [present, singular, third-person], thinning up [participle, present], thinned up [participle, past], thinned up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} thin up (third-person singular simple present thins up, present participle thinning up, simple past and past participle thinned up)
  1. (informal, transitive, intransitive) To become or make (something) thin (in either width or viscosity). Tags: informal, intransitive, transitive

Inflected forms

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        "(informal, transitive, intransitive) To become or make (something) thin (in either width or viscosity)."
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