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shallowing

shallowing is the present participle and gerund of shallow.

Meaning of shallow

Verb

shallow (third-person singular simple present shallows, present participle shallowing, simple past and past participle shallowed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make or become less deep.
    • The shallowing of Cenozoic age-frequency curves from tropics to poles thus appears to reflect the decreasing probability for genera to reach and remain established in progressively higher latitudes ( 9 ).2009 February 6, Andrew Z. Krug et al., “Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 767–771

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Noun

shallowing (plural shallowings)

  1. The act of becoming shallower.
    • The main 200-feet basin is about 8 miles long; it includes three areas of over 300 feet, which, however, are only separated by very slight shallowings.1907, Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 23, page 349
    • And this shallowing, reinforced by the creation of mid-ocean ridges as the supercontinents split up, forced the world’s oceans to overflow, changing the outlines of the continents and all but sinking some of the European islands.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 28

Forms of shallowing

pluralshallowings

Questions about shallowing

What does shallowing mean?
Shallowing means the act of becoming shallower.
What is shallowing the present participle and gerund of?
Shallowing is the present participle and gerund of shallow.
What part of speech is shallowing?
Shallowing is a noun.
What is the plural of shallowing?
The plural of shallowing is shallowings.

Words near shallowing in the dictionary

  1. shallowest
  2. shallowfake
  3. shallowfakes
  4. shallowhearted
  5. shallowheartedness
  6. shallowing
  7. shallowings
  8. shallowish
  9. shallowly
  10. shallowness
  11. shallownesses

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