While the ocean is wide, the trench may be far from continental sources of sediment and so may be deep. As continents approach each other, the trench can fill with continental sediments and become shallower.
Definition of blunt. 3a : abrupt in speech or manner She tends to be blunt. a blunt refusalb : being straight to the point : direct To be perfectly blunt, I don't think he can do it.
1. countable noun. 1  A whip is a long thin piece of material such as leather or rope, fastened to a stiff handle. 2  If someone whips a person or animal, they beat them or hit them with a whip or something like a whip. 3  If something, for example the wind, whips something, it strikes it sharply.