hollow | English to English Dictionary

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hollow

('h/A/l/oU/ )

not solid; having a space or gap or cavity(adj.all)

Example:
A hollow wall.
A hollow tree.
Hollow cheeks.
His face became gaunter and more hollow with each year.

Antonym:
solid

source: wordnet30
Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.(adjective)

source: webster1913

a cavity or space in something(noun.shape)

Example:
Hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks.

source: wordnet30
a small valley between mountains(noun.object)

Example:
He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians.

Synonym:
holler

source: wordnet30
a depression hollowed out of solid matter(noun.object)

Synonym:
hole

source: wordnet30
A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.(noun)

source: webster1913

Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.(adverb)

source: webster1913

remove the inner part or the core of(verb.contact)

Synonym:
dig, excavate

source: wordnet30
remove the interior of(verb.contact)

Example:
Hollow out a tree trunk.

Synonym:
core out, hollow out

source: wordnet30
To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.(verb)

source: webster1913
To shout; to hollo.(verb)

source: webster1913
To urge or call by shouting.(verb)

source: webster1913