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highbinder: That thief cheated them out <strong>of</strong> their savings. 3<br />

pirate, (sea) rover, picaroon or pickaroon, corsair, freebooter,<br />

buccaneer, marauder, filibuster, privateer: <strong>The</strong>y might seem<br />

romantic in retrospect, but at the time, pirates were no more<br />

than common thieves.<br />

thin adj. 1 slim, slender, lean, spare, slight, lanky, spindly,<br />

skinny, thin as a rail or reed or rake, wispy, twiggy, skeletal,<br />

gaunt, gangling, bony, emaciated, cadaverous, meagre, scrawny,<br />

all skin and bones, scraggy, undernourished, underfed,<br />

underweight, undersized, puny, sparse, hollow-cheeked,<br />

(half-)starved, pinched, withered, shrunken, shrivelled (up):<br />

Douglas is quite thin as a result <strong>of</strong> his illness. 2 sparse,<br />

unsubstantial, poor, scant, insufficient, inadequate, slight,<br />

worthless, unimportant, deficient, skimpy, unplentiful, paltry,<br />

piddling: This year's harvest has been very thin. 3<br />

attenuated, threadlike, stringlike, pencil-thin, fine; narrow:<br />

Draw a thin line between the columns. Please slice the bread<br />

thin. 4 flimsy, weak, feeble, slight, unsubstantial,<br />

insubstantial, fragile, frail, poor, lame; unbelievable,<br />

unconvincing: Harry gave some thin excuse for being late. 5<br />

airy, filmy, diaphanous, gossamer, sheer, light, delicate,<br />

chiffon, silky, silken, gauzy, translucent, see-through,<br />

transparent: She had nothing but a thin negligee to protect her<br />

from the cold. 6 watery, watered down, dilute(d), weak,<br />

unsatisfying: My dinner, as usual, consisted <strong>of</strong> thin gruel and<br />

a dry crust. 7 thin on the ground. rare, uncommon, scarce, few<br />

(and far between), unusual, hard to come by or find, scant,<br />

scanty: Good managers are thin on the ground.<br />

--v. 8 Often, thin down. draw out, attenuate, reduce, trim, cut<br />

down, prune; sharpen: At one end, thin the dowel to a point. 9<br />

Often, thin down or out. dilute, water (down), decrease, reduce,<br />

diminish: <strong>The</strong>y always thin the wine with some water. <strong>The</strong> crowd<br />

thinned out after a while.<br />

thing n. 1 item, (inanimate) object, article, possession: <strong>The</strong>y went<br />

without leaving a thing behind. 2 item, subject, matter,<br />

detail, feature, aspect, affair, constituent, element, factor,<br />

point: <strong>The</strong>re's one thing that I forgot to mention. It's a small<br />

thing, but I like c<strong>of</strong>fee with my breakfast. 3 fad, trend,<br />

fashion: Let me show you the latest thing in sports cars. 4<br />

feeling, reaction, attitude, sentiment, emotional attachment;

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