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hollow

• (a) not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
  • a hollow wall
  • a hollow tree
  • hollow cheeks
  • his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year
• (s) as if echoing in a hollow space
  • the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom
• (s) devoid of significance or point
  • empty promises
  • a hollow victory
  • vacuous comments
  empty, vacuous,

Nouns

• (n) a cavity or space in something
  • hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks
• (n) a small valley between mountains
  • he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians
  holler,
• (n) a depression hollowed out of solid matter hole,

Verbs

• (v) remove the inner part or the core of
  • the mining company wants to excavate the hillside
  excavate, dig,
• (v) remove the interior of
  • hollow out a tree trunk
  core out, hollow out,

Synonyms

excavate dig core out hollow out holler empty vacuous hole

Antonyms

solid

See also

empty

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