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English to English adjective
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Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water. |  | source: webster1913
noun
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a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide | | source: wordnet30
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a stretch of shallow water | | source: wordnet30
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a large group of fish | | Example: a school of small glittering fish swam by
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A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. | | source: webster1913
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A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow. | | source: webster1913
verb
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make shallow | | Example: The silt shallowed the canal
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become shallow | | Example: the lake shallowed over time
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To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place. | | source: webster1913
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To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals. | | source: webster1913
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To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep. | | source: webster1913
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