"shallowing" meaning in English

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "shallowing",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "shallow"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of shallow"
      ],
      "id": "en-shallowing-en-verb-sRaCH96q",
      "links": [
        [
          "shallow",
          "shallow#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shallowing"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shallowings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "shallowing (plural shallowings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "73 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 23, page 349:",
          "text": "The main 200-feet basin is about 8 miles long; it includes three areas of over 300 feet, which, however, are only separated by very slight shallowings.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 28:",
          "text": "And this shallowing, reinforced by the creation of mid-ocean ridges as the supercontinents split up, forced the world’s oceans to overflow, changing the outlines of the continents and all but sinking some of the European islands.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of becoming shallower."
      ],
      "id": "en-shallowing-en-noun-9-FYw6ez"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shallowing"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verb forms",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "shallowing",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "shallow"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of shallow"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shallow",
          "shallow#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shallowing"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verb forms",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shallowings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "shallowing (plural shallowings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 23, page 349:",
          "text": "The main 200-feet basin is about 8 miles long; it includes three areas of over 300 feet, which, however, are only separated by very slight shallowings.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 28:",
          "text": "And this shallowing, reinforced by the creation of mid-ocean ridges as the supercontinents split up, forced the world’s oceans to overflow, changing the outlines of the continents and all but sinking some of the European islands.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of becoming shallower."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shallowing"
}