shallow
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Is shallow a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Not deep in tone.Examples: "the sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring"obsolete
2. (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.Examples: "Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory."
3. (of an angle) Not steep; close to horizontal.Examples: "a shallow climb"; "a shallow descent"; "a shallow bank angle"
noun (English)
1. (historical) A costermonger's barrow.Examples: "You might have gone there quite as easily, and enjoyed yourself much more, had your mode of conveyance been the railway, or a hansom, or even a costermonger's shallow."historical
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To make or become less deep.Examples: "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 )."ambitransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary