Synonyms:
dilutant, diluent, thinner
Meaning: a diluting agent
Usage examples
And as she talked to her husband Anna Pavlovna looked thinner, older, plainer.
Lastly come the less-visited expanses, which consequently have a thinner carpet.
His face was paler and thinner than ever, and dark rings encircled his blue eyes.
Colonel Dale was much like his brother in face, but was taller, even thinner, and apparently older.
'Let me look out,' said the second lady, who was, if possible, older and thinner and primmer than the first.
But, industrious as he was, he could hardly buy bread and cheese for himself and his wife, and they grew thinner and thinner daily.
The article itself was of the regulation size, cut somewhat thinner, perhaps, and bordering on the gray in hue, but undoubtedly roast beef.
Through this reform, and the further use of steel ribs for imparting strength and thus admitting of the employment of thinner steel plates for the actual shell, the cost of shipbuilding will be very greatly reduced.
The only shadow of a hope she had was, that she might by slow degrees grow thinner and thinner, until at last she wore away to nothing at all; only alas! she could not detect the least sign that she had yet begun to grow thinner.