thinning (n.)
- abatement
- adulteration
- atrophy
- attenuation
- attrition
- consumption
- cultivation
- culture
- cutting
- deadening
- debilitation
- devitalization
- diluent
- dilution
- dissolvent
- dressing
- drying
- emaciation
- enervation
- enfeeblement
- evisceration
- exhaustion
- extenuation
- fatigue
- inanition
- listing
- mitigation
- plowing
- pruning
- rarefaction
- reduction
- relaxation
- resolvent
- shrinkage
- shrinking
- slackening
- softening
- solvent
- tilling
- wasting
- weakening
- withering
- working