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highbinder: That thief cheated them out of their savings. 3
pirate, (sea) rover, picaroon or pickaroon, corsair, freebooter,
buccaneer, marauder, filibuster, privateer: They might seem
romantic in retrospect, but at the time, pirates were no more
than common thieves.
thin adj. 1 slim, slender, lean, spare, slight, lanky, spindly,
skinny, thin as a rail or reed or rake, wispy, twiggy, skeletal,
gaunt, gangling, bony, emaciated, cadaverous, meagre, scrawny,
all skin and bones, scraggy, undernourished, underfed,
underweight, undersized, puny, sparse, hollow-cheeked,
(half-)starved, pinched, withered, shrunken, shrivelled (up):
Douglas is quite thin as a result of his illness. 2 sparse,
unsubstantial, poor, scant, insufficient, inadequate, slight,
worthless, unimportant, deficient, skimpy, unplentiful, paltry,
piddling: This year's harvest has been very thin. 3
attenuated, threadlike, stringlike, pencil-thin, fine; narrow:
Draw a thin line between the columns. Please slice the bread
thin. 4 flimsy, weak, feeble, slight, unsubstantial,
insubstantial, fragile, frail, poor, lame; unbelievable,
unconvincing: Harry gave some thin excuse for being late. 5
airy, filmy, diaphanous, gossamer, sheer, light, delicate,
chiffon, silky, silken, gauzy, translucent, see-through,
transparent: She had nothing but a thin negligee to protect her
from the cold. 6 watery, watered down, dilute(d), weak,
unsatisfying: My dinner, as usual, consisted of thin gruel and
a dry crust. 7 thin on the ground. rare, uncommon, scarce, few
(and far between), unusual, hard to come by or find, scant,
scanty: Good managers are thin on the ground.
--v. 8 Often, thin down. draw out, attenuate, reduce, trim, cut
down, prune; sharpen: At one end, thin the dowel to a point. 9
Often, thin down or out. dilute, water (down), decrease, reduce,
diminish: They always thin the wine with some water. The crowd
thinned out after a while.
thing n. 1 item, (inanimate) object, article, possession: They went
without leaving a thing behind. 2 item, subject, matter,
detail, feature, aspect, affair, constituent, element, factor,
point: There's one thing that I forgot to mention. It's a small
thing, but I like coffee with my breakfast. 3 fad, trend,
fashion: Let me show you the latest thing in sports cars. 4
feeling, reaction, attitude, sentiment, emotional attachment;