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Type Words
Synonyms shoal
Type of change


the lake shallowed over time.
Type Words
Synonyms shoal
Type of body of water, water
Type Words
Synonyms shoal
Type of alter, modify, change


The silt shallowed the canal.
Type Words
Derivation shallowness


shallow people.
his arguments seemed shallow and tedious.
Type Words
Derivation shallowness


shallow water.
a shallow dish.
a shallow cut.
a shallow closet.
established a shallow beachhead.
hit the ball to shallow left field.
Type Words


shallow breathing.
a night of shallow fretful sleep.
in a shallow trance.

Examples of shallow

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Place a shallow metal container of water on the floor of the oven to make steam.
From the thenewstribune.com
It's in a cylindrical shallow well through the slab, covered by a piece of wood.
From the dailyherald.com
Twenty pilot whales beached themselves Thursday in shallow water off Cudjoe Key.
From the sacbee.com
That fly ball went to shallow right field, where Ichiro Suzuki was playing deep.
From the thenewstribune.com
Walleye fair over shallow, windswept mainlake points casting jigs or crankbaits.
From the kansas.com
The species is native to Western Europe and lives in shallow, brackish habitats.
From the sciencedaily.com
She says any pot or aquarium will do, but shallow bowls with drainage work best.
From the dailyherald.com
Part of this is due to the shallow soil of the surrounding temperate rainforest.
From the smh.com.au
In their shallow trenches they had a better chance of survival than the Chinese.
From the theaustralian.com.au
More examples
  • Make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"
  • Lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field"
  • Shoal: a stretch of shallow water
  • Lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"
  • (shallowness) superficiality: lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
  • (shallowness) the quality of lacking physical depth; "take into account the shallowness at that end of the pool before you dive"
  • "Shallow" is a single by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, from the album Deadwing, released in January 2005 in the United States for radio broadcast purposes. The song managed to enter the Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, peaking at #26, without the help of any music video.
  • Shallows is a 1984 novel by Australian author Tim Winton about whaling.
  • A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water; To make or become less deep; Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide; Extending not far downward; Concerned mainly with superficial matters; Lacking interest or substance