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Abduce
verb · 78% connection
To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Attenuate
verb · 78% connection
To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Attenuation
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Board
noun · 78% connection
A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Clew
noun · 78% connection
To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Contract
noun · 78% connection
To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Cremaster
noun · 78% connection
A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Daddy longlegs
unknown · 78% connection
A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slende…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Decline
verb · 78% connection
To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Design
noun · 78% connection
To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Dimension
noun · 78% connection
Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Disadvance
v. t. & i. · 78% connection
To draw back, or cause to draw back.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Draw
verb · 78% connection
To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Fibre
noun · 78% connection
Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Lamella
noun · 78% connection
a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Layer
noun · 78% connection
thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Lessen
adjective · 78% connection
To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to le…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
Line
noun · 78% connection
A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, slender, draw, lessen, thickness.
