thin the herd (English, verb)
expansion: thin the herd (third-person singular simple present thins the herd, present participle thinning the herd, simple past and past participle thinned the herd)
Senses:
glosses: to cull, to reduce the size of a group
tags: idiomatic
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see thin, the, herd.
Forms:
form: thins the herd
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thinning the herd
tags: participle
present
form: thinned the herd
tags: participle
past
form: thinned the herd
tags: past