Shallow and Trench

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Shallow noun - A stretch of shallow water.

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Trench is an antonym for shallow.

Nearby Words: shallowed, shallowing

Trench noun - A long narrow channel dug in the earth.

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Shallow is an antonym for trench.

Nearby Words: trenchant, trenched, trencher, trenching

In the 1959 film The Hanging Tree, a trio of amateur prospectors discover a huge deposit of gold beneath a tree stump, a sort of shallow mineral-rich trench or pit known as a...glory hole.

Source: Have A Gay Old Time / Film

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