Definition: a stretch of shallow water
Definition: become shallow
Usage: the lake shallowed over time
Definition: make shallow
Usage: The silt shallowed the canal
Main entry: shallow
Definition: lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center
Usage: shallow water; a shallow dish; a shallow cut; a shallow closet; established a shallow beachhead; hit the ball to shallow left field
Main entry: shallow
Definition: not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
Usage: shallow breathing; a night of shallow fretful sleep; in a shallow trance
Main entry: shallow
Definition: lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
Usage: shallow people; his arguments seemed shallow and tedious