| noun | a stretch of shallow water |
| verb | make shallow “The silt shallowed the canal” |
| verb | become shallow “the lake shallowed over time” |
| adjective | lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center “shallow water” |
| adjective | not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply “shallow breathing” |
| adjective | lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious “shallow people” |
| shoal | verb | become shallow |
| shallow | adjective | lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center |
| shallow | verb | become shallow |
| shallow | noun | a stretch of shallow water |
| shoal | noun | a stretch of shallow water |
| shallowness | noun | the quality of lacking physical depth |