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shallow

/'ʃæloʊ/

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verb
become shallow
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"the lake shallowed over time"

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shoal

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change
noun
a stretch of shallow water
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shoal

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body of water water
verb
make shallow
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"The silt shallowed the canal"

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shoal

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alter modify change
adjective
lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
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"shallow people" "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"

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superficial
adjective
lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center
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"shallow water" "a shallow dish" "a shallow cut" "a shallow closet" "established a shallow beachhead" "hit the ball to shallow left field"

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fordable knee-deep neritic reefy shelfy shelvy shoaly superficial ankle-deep

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deep
adjective
not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
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"shallow breathing" "a night of shallow fretful sleep" "in a shallow trance"

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wakeful light

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deep

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