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.
Full Definition of WHIP. transitive verb. 1. 2. a (1) : to strike with a slender lithe implement (as a lash or rod) especially as a punishment (2) : spank b: to drive or urge on by or as if by using a whip. 3.