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| pertaining to or engaged in benevolent giving, engaging in the betterment of condition for others; charitable work |
| vilify |
| shoal1 (ʃəʊl) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a stretch of shallow water |
| 2. | a sandbank or rocky area in a stretch of water, esp one that is visible at low water |
| —vb | |
| 3. | to make or become shallow |
| 4. | (intr) nautical to sail into shallower water |
| —adj | |
| 5. | a less common word for shallow |
| 6. | nautical (of the draught of a vessel) drawing little water |
| [Old English sceald | |
| 'shoaliness1 | |
| —n | |
| shoal (shōl) Pronunciation Key
A submerged mound or ridge of sediment in a body of shallow water. |
shoal
accumulation of sediment in a river channel or on a continental shelf that is potentially dangerous to ships. On the continental shelf it is conventionally taken to be less than 10 m (33 feet) below water level at low tide. Shoals are formed by essentially the same factors that produce offshore bars. See sandbar.
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