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[ hol-oh ] / ˈhɒl oʊ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR hollow ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, hol·low·er, hol·low·est.having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere. having a depression or concavity: a hollow surface. sunken, as the cheeks or eyes. (of sound) not resonant; dull, muffled, or deep: a hollow voice. without real or significant worth; meaningless: a hollow victory. insincere or false: hollow compliments. hungry; having an empty feeling: I feel absolutely hollow, so let's eat. nounan empty space within anything; a hole, depression, or cavity. a valley: They took the sheep to graze in the hollow. Foundry. a concavity connecting two surfaces otherwise intersecting at an obtuse angle. verb (used with object)to make hollow (often followed by out): to hollow out a log. to form by making something hollow (often followed by out): to hollow a place in the sand; boats hollowed out of logs. verb (used without object)adverbin a hollow manner: The politician's accusations rang hollow. Idioms for hollowbeat all hollow, to surpass or outdo completely: His performance beat the others all hollow.Also beat hollow.
Origin of hollowbefore 900; Middle English holw(e), holow,Old English holh a hollow place; akin to hole SYNONYMS FOR hollow5 vain, empty, futile, pointless. SEE SYNONYMS FOR hollow ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM hollowhol·low·ly, adverbhol·low·ness, nounhalf-hollow, adjectiveun·hol·low, adjective un·hol·lowed, adjective Words nearby hollowHolliger, Hollingshead, Hollister, Holliston, hollo, hollow, hollow back, hollow bone, hollow-eyed, hollow-forge, hollow-ground Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for hollowEven our hospitals are being taken over and hollowed out by Wall Street. Why the Democratic Party must make a clean break with Wall Street|matthewheimer|September 8, 2020|Fortune For some, the announcement back in March that he would pick a woman started to ring hollow the longer the search dragged on. Biden’s Pledge To Choose A Woman For VP Was Popular — And So Is Harris|Geoffrey Skelley (geoffrey.skelley@abc.com)|August 14, 2020|FiveThirtyEight These hornets nest in hollow trees and cozy nooks within walls. What you need to know about ‘murder hornets’|Susan Milius|July 20, 2020|Science News For Students He liked to play in a hollow tree where insect-eating bats used to live. How to find the next pandemic virus before it finds us|Lindsey Konkel|April 30, 2020|Science News For Students
The explanation for these landmines mainly related to the use of hollow cast iron balls that were presumably filled with gunpowder. 14 Exceptional Weapon Systems from History That Were Ahead of their Time|Dattatreya Mandal|March 26, 2020|Realm of History The young man weaves through clusters of bamboo and cuts a diagonal slash into a tree, positioning a hollow log at the end. The Congo's Forgotten Colonial Getaway|Nina Strochlic|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST He pressed a hollow shell casing into my palm and leaned towards my ear, “I PICKED IT UP FROM THE BEDROOM!” I Shot Bin Laden|Elliot Ackerman|November 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST Head of State was prescient, but hollow; I Think I Love My Wife was bland; and the documentary Good Hair was fascinating fun. Oscar Season Kicks Off in Toronto: Channing Tatum, Kristen Stewart, and More Court Awards Glory|Marlow Stern|September 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST The boy stops making noise, and there's a hollow absence of sound for few moments before the Iraqi soldiers start shouting again. Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq|Nathan Bradley Bethea|August 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST In the end, Hollow pulled out a withering attack that outpaced Budden both in speed and viciousness. America’s Poets: Battle Rap Gets Real|Rich Goldstein|July 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST It is quite impossible for me to decide if, by digging straight down, I shall come to a hollow cell or to a solid wall. The Mason-bees|J. Henri Fabre It is said that the nest is sometimes built in the crevices of cliffs or in hollow trees. Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 1 [January 1902]|Various Beyond the hollow stretched a belt of upheaved ridges of brick-red sandstone. The Trail of Conflict|Emilie Baker Loring His cheeks are hollow and pale; he looks dejected, and yet fierce. The deformity presents a combination of the hollow foot—pes cavus—with pes calcaneus, and resembles that of a Chinese lady's foot. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition.|Alexander Miles
British Dictionary definitions for hollow
adjectivehaving a hole, cavity, or space within; not solid having a sunken area; concave recessed or deeply sethollow cheeks (of sounds) as if resounding in a hollow place without substance or validity hungry or empty insincere; cynical a hollow leg or hollow legs the capacity to eat or drink a lot without ill effects adverbbeat someone hollow British informal to defeat someone thoroughly and convincingly nouna cavity, opening, or space in or within something a depression or dip in the land verb (often foll by out, usually when tr)to make or become hollow to form (a hole, cavity, etc) or (of a hole, etc) to be formed Derived forms of hollowhollowly, adverbhollowness, nounWord Origin for hollowC12: from holu, inflected form of Old English holh cave; related to Old Norse holr, German hohl; see hole Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with hollow
see beat the pants off (hollow). The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to hollowmuted, fruitless, worthless, futile, pointless, empty, useless, flimsy, cavern, sunken, depressed, void, vaulted, curved, cleft, notched, arched, indented, dimpled, cupped |