shallowing
Losing water depth
Shallowing describes the process of becoming less deep, whether literally or figuratively.
Water may be shallowing as you approach shore, or a conversation may be shallowing as participants lose interest in substantive exchange.
In technical contexts, particularly geology and oceanography, shallowing refers to the gradual reduction in depth of a basin, seafloor, or water body over time.
The river's shallowing made navigation increasingly difficult.
Making content less challenging
- oversimplifyingRemoving necessary complexity
- trivializingDiminishing perceived significance
- dilutingLessening strength by mixing
- watering downMaking weaker or milder
superficiality · simplistic · reductionist · cursory · surface-level · glib · facile · soundbite
Shallow water hazard
- sandbarUnderwater ridge of sediment
- wadingTraversing shallow water on foot
- tidalOf sea rhythms
- estuaryTidal mixing zone
lagoon · reef · mudflat · nearshore · littoral · coastal · silting · sediment
Becoming reduced in degree
- decreasingBecoming smaller or fewer
- taperingProgressive decrease in width
- diminishingBecoming progressively less
- recedingMoving away from observer
declining · ebbing · waning · reducing · subsiding · flattening · leveling · sloping
Pulmonary gas exchange
- respirationGas exchange in organisms
- inhaleDraw air in
- exhaleExpel breath outward
- pantingRapid labored breathing
hyperventilating · quick breath · chest breathing · breathwork · diaphragm · thoracic
dumbing down
Making content less challenging
- oversimplifyingRemoving necessary complexity
- trivializingDiminishing perceived significance
- dilutingLessening strength by mixing
watering down · superficiality · simplistic · reductionist · cursory · surface-level · glib · facile · soundbite · tabloidization
shoal
Shallow water hazard
estuary · lagoon · reef · mudflat · nearshore · littoral · coastal · silting · sediment · basin
lessening
Becoming reduced in degree
- decreasingBecoming smaller or fewer
- taperingProgressive decrease in width
- diminishingBecoming progressively less
receding · declining · ebbing · waning · reducing · subsiding · flattening · leveling · sloping · grading
breathing
Pulmonary gas exchange
- respirationGas exchange in organisms
- inhaleDraw air in
- exhaleExpel breath outward
panting · hyperventilating · quick breath · chest breathing · breathwork · diaphragm · thoracic
shallowingdeepening
Becoming more profound
dredging · excavating · sinking · hollowing · hollowing out
shallowingdeepening
Becoming more profound
enriching · complexifying · intensifying · elaborating · thickening
shallow, shallows, shallowness, shallowly, shallowest, shallower