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| VERB: | 1. To lose body weight, as by dieting. Also used with down: reduce, trim down. See FAT, INCREASE. 2. To make physically thin or thinner: thin. Archaic : extenuate. See FAT, INCREASE. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Small in degree, especially of probability: faint, negligible, outside, remote, slender, slight. See BIG. 2. Having little flesh or fat on the body: angular, bony, fleshless, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean2, meager, rawboned, scrawny, skinny, slender, spare, thin, twiggy, weedy. Idioms: all skin and bones, thin as a rail. See FAT.
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