shallowing

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Verb

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shallowing

  1. present participle and gerund of shallow

Noun

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shallowing (plural shallowings)

  1. The act of becoming shallower.
    • 1907, Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 23, page 349:
      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.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 28:
      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.

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