shallowed
SaySHAL-ohdUS/ˈʃæl.oʊd/UK/ˈʃaləʊd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of shallow.
The stream shallowed into a wide gravel bed just before the old bridge.
Years of silt had shallowed the once-deep harbor entrance.
Note
The verb behind this form works in two directions, and its past keeps both. Water can do it to itself (the river shallowed near the sea), or something can do it to water (silt shallowed the channel). In the passive, the channel was shallowed by silt. With have it forms the perfect either way: the bay has shallowed over the years.
shallowed is a form of shallow
shallow, verb: To make less deep, or to become less deep, as a body of water does when sediment accumulates. Full entry
- Forms
- shallowshallows he/she/itshallowing -ing formshallowed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- shallow → shallowed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
Use it in a sentence
Write your own sentence with shallowed, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.