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overdeepen

verb

Etymology

From over- + deepen.

  1. inherited from *deupaz✻ — “deep”
  2. inherited from *deup✻
  3. inherited from dēop — “deep, profound; awful, mysterious; heinous; serious, solemn, earnest; extreme, great”
  4. inherited from dep
  5. suffixed as deepen — “deep + en”
  6. prefixed as overdeepen — “over + deepen”

Definitions

  1. To erode (a basin or valley) far deeper than the thalweg.

The neighborhood

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