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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



... moment we entered into a sudden clearing amidst the fog enclosure: a tract of a quarter of an acre, like a hollow center, with the white walls held apart and the stars and moon faintly glimmering down through the ...
— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin
... in good earnest, and so God mend me, and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous, if you break one jot of your promise, or come one minute behind your hour, I will think you the most pathetical break-promise, and the most hollow lover, and the most unworthy of her you call Rosalind, that may be chosen out of the gross band of the unfaithful: therefore beware my ...
— As You Like It • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... a hollow wooden form of the dimensions indicated. The mixture was to be poured into the hopper until the entire form was filled, such mixture flowing down and along the horizontal legs and up the vertical members. It was to ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... a color holder, with white at the finger tips, black at the wrist, strong colors around the outside, and weaker colors within the hollow. Each finger is a scale of its own color, with white above and black below, while the graying of all the hues is traced by imaginary lines which meet in the middle of the hand. Thus a child's hand may be his substitute for the color sphere, and also make him realize that it is filled ...
— A Color Notation - A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, - Value and Chroma • Albert H. Munsell
... no interest but the intense appearance of truth in them, to recommend them. The whole latter half or two-thirds of "Colonel Jack" is of this description. The beginning of "Colonel Jack" is the most affecting natural picture of a young thief that was ever drawn. His losing the stolen money in the hollow of a tree, and finding it again when he was in despair, and then being in equal distress at not knowing how to dispose of it, and several similar touches in the early history of the Colonel, evince a deep knowledge of human nature, and putting out of question ...
— The Best Letters of Charles Lamb • Charles Lamb


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