shallowly


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shal·low

 (shăl′ō)
adj. shal·low·er, shal·low·est
1. Measuring little from bottom to top or surface; lacking physical depth.
2. Lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge: "This is a shallow parody of America" (Lloyd Rose).
3. Marked by insufficient inhalation of air; weak: shallow respirations.
4. In the part of a playing area that is closer to home plate: shallow left field.
n.
often shallows A part of a body of water of little depth; a shoal: abandoned the boat in the shallows.
tr. & intr.v. shal·lowed, shal·low·ing, shal·lows
To make or become shallow.

[Middle English schalowe.]

shal′low·ly adv.
shal′low·ness n.
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Adv.1.shallowly - in a shallow manner
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Translations

shallowly

[ˈʃæləʊli] adv
to breathe shallowly → respirer par petites bouffées
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

shallowly

adv breatheflach
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References in classic literature ?
Originally these islets had been mere sand-banks and coral reefs awash in the sea or shallowly covered by the sea.
It was indeed a changeful brook; here it would make a pool, dark and brooding and still, where we bent to look at our mirrored faces; then it grew communicative and gossiped shallowly over a broken pebble bed where there was a diamond dance of sunbeams and no troutling or minnow could glide through without being seen.
At Crake, the gold mineralisation strikes NW and dips shallowly to the SW.
| Slow your breath Most of us breathe too fast and shallowly, and that sends a message to our bodies that we're in fight or flight mode - hardly the ideal state in which to fall asleep.
pulcher, but is distinguished by a bicoloured body, the shallowly concave anterior clypeal margin, the absence of well-developed anterior clypeal teeth, the fewer irregular longitudinal cephalic rugae and the feeble longitudinal rugae on the posterior face of the petiolar node.
The "ha" breath To ease a tension headache Breathing too shallowly can result in an inadequate supply of oxygen to blood vessels in the brain - and that can cause headaches.
They found Karyn Zondlo on the living room floor partially conscious and breathing shallowly, police said.
Many people perceive us fans as living our lives shallowly. It's the stereotype, so, for many years, my fangirl life was like a secret identity, my alter ego.
"A tech looking on her last night found her sweating and breathing shallowly," Charlie reveals.
On April 4 last year, several villagers started digging up the chicken wings buried shallowly at a vacant land site about 1km from Bukit Aup.