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shoal
shoal is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, intransitive verb, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 12 senses
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- 1noun
A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
- 2intransitive verb
To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
- 3adjective
Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
- 4noun
A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
- 5noun
A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
- 6intransitive verb
To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
- 7transitive verb
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.
- 8noun
a large group of fish
"a school of small glittering fish swam by"
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- 9noun
a stretch of shallow water
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- 10noun
a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
- 11verb
become shallow
"the lake shallowed over time"
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- 12verb
make shallow
"The silt shallowed the canal"
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