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Hollow   /hˈɑloʊ/   Listen
Hollow

adjective
1.
Not solid; having a space or gap or cavity.  "A hollow tree" , "Hollow cheeks" , "His face became gaunter and more hollow with each year"
2.
As if echoing in a hollow space.
3.
Devoid of significance or point.  Synonyms: empty, vacuous.  "A hollow victory" , "Vacuous comments"
noun
1.
A cavity or space in something.
2.
A small valley between mountains.  Synonym: holler.
3.
A depression hollowed out of solid matter.  Synonym: hole.
verb
(past & past part. hollowed; pres. part. hollowing)
1.
Remove the inner part or the core of.  Synonyms: dig, excavate.
2.
Remove the interior of.  Synonyms: core out, hollow out.



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"Hollow" Quotes from Famous Books



... sovereign rights are acknowledged by the Government so far as to hold him more or less responsible for any iniquity committed by his people; and as the Government do not allow him to execute or flagellate the said people, earthly pomp is rather a hollow thing ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley
... funk as oi was in o' falling, the swaat was a-running down me loike water. The torches war put out, and in another minute we pushes through some bushes and then we war on t' top of the cliff a hundred yards or so back from t' edge, and doon in a sort of hollow all covered thickly over wi' bushes. We stood and listened vor a moment, but no sound war to be heard. Then one on em says, 'We ha' done 'em agin. Now the sooner as we gets off to our homes the better.' Looky for me, Jack war one of the lot as had coom up through the cave. 'Coom along, Luke,' ...
— Through the Fray - A Tale of the Luddite Riots • G. A. Henty
... doore of the house, vpon the forestall of the carte driuing forth the oxen. Moreouer, they make certaine fouresquare baskets of small slender wickers as big as great chestes: and afterward, from one side to another, they frame an hollow lidde or couer of such like wickers, and make a doore in the fore side thereof. And then they couer the sayd chest or little house with black fell rubbed ouer with tallow or sheeps milke to keepe the raine from soaking through, which they decke ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt
... [2]] are here entertained of me, so that I pass among some for a disaffected Person, and among others for a Popish Priest; among some for a Wizard, and among others for a Murderer; and all this for no other Reason, that I can imagine, but because I do not hoot and hollow and make a Noise. It is true my Friend Sir ROGER tells them, That it is my way, and that I am only a Philosopher; but [this [2]] will not satisfy them. They think there is more in me than he discovers, and that I do not hold my Tongue ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... to interest the boys. At night they returned home filled with excitement over the large hollow oak they had found ...
— Some Three Hundred Years Ago • Edith Gilman Brewster


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