[f. THIN v.1 + -ED1.] Made thin or less thick, in senses of THIN v.1; reduced in thickness, density, frequency, number, etc.
1710. J. Clarke, Rohault’s Nat. Phil., I. xxvii. (1729), I. 210. The Superficies of the thinned Body, where it is of any one Thickness.
1857. Ld. Dufferin, Lett. High Lat., xii. (ed. 3), 359. The thinned ranks on board the ‘Iron Beard’ are constantly replenished.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 695. Pigment is irregularly accumulated in the thinned epidermis.
