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单词 hollow
释义
hollow
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adjnv

If something is hollow, it is empty on the inside. A chocolate Easter bunny looks like so much chocolate until you realize that it is hollow and quickly eaten.
The idea of emptiness is apparent in the other uses for hollow too. A valley between mountains is called a hollow and if you're really thin, you may have hollow cheeks. Things like words and promises are hollow if the person uttering them does not intend to keep them. And a hollow victory is not very satisfying, as it means that you have reached your goal, but lost something more important along the way.
WORD FAMILY
hollow: hollowed, hollower, hollowest, hollowing, hollowly, hollowness, hollows+/hollowness: hollownesses
USAGE EXAMPLES
One of the beefs with “Captain Fantastic” is that it promotes an all-or-nothing extremism that rings hollow.
Salon(Dec 30, 2016)
The supernatural drama “Sleepy Hollow” scares up a fourth season.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016)
She dismissed them as harsh judgments and hollow words from people she did not trust.
New York Times(Dec 29, 2016)
1adj 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
Syn|Ant
empty
holding or containing nothing
cavernous
being or suggesting a cavern
deep-set, recessed, sunken
having a sunken area
fistular, fistulate, fistulous
hollow and tube-shaped like a reed
cannular, tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular, vasiform
constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids)
solid
entirely of one substance with no holes inside
massive
being the same substance throughout
2adj as if echoing in a hollow space
the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom
Syn
reverberant
having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected
3adj devoid of significance or point
a hollow victory
Syn
empty, vacuous
meaningless, nonmeaningful
having no meaning or direction or purpose
4n a cavity or space in something
hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks
Hyper
cavity, enclosed space
space that is surrounded by something
5n a depression hollowed out of solid matter
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
hole
burrow, tunnel
a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
gopher hole
a hole in the ground made by gophers
kettle, kettle hole
(geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits
cavity, pit
a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
chuckhole, pothole
a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface)
rabbit burrow, rabbit hole
a hole in the ground as a nest made by wild rabbits
wormhole
hole made by a burrowing worm
trou-de-loup
a sloping pit with a stake in the middle used as an obstacle to the enemy
barbecue pit
a pit where wood or charcoal is burned to make a bed of hot coals suitable for barbecuing meat
borrow pit
a pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another site
divot
(golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke
fire pit
a pit whose floor is incandescent lava
quicksand
a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down
sandpit
a large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dug
sawpit
a pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed saw
tar pit
a natural accumulation of bitumens at the surface of the earth; often acts as a trap for animals whose bones are thus preserved
rabbit warren, warren
a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits
depression, natural depression
a sunken or depressed geological formation
6n a small valley between mountains
he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
holler
dell, dingle
a small wooded hollow
vale, valley
a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river
7v remove the inner part or the core of
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
dig, excavate
drive
excavate horizontally
ditch, trench
cut a trench in, as for drainage
remove, take, take away, withdraw
remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
8v remove the interior of
hollow out a tree trunk
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
core out, hollow out
gouge, rout
make a groove in
scallop, scollop
form scallops in
hole
make holes in
draw in, suck in
draw in as if by suction
scoop out
hollow out with a scoop
cavern, cavern out
hollow out as if making a cavern
cave, undermine
hollow out as if making a cave or opening
dig, dig out
create by digging
excavate
form by hollowing
core
remove the core or center from
sap
excavate the earth beneath
lift
take (root crops) out of the ground
trench
dig a trench or trenches
dibble
make a hole with a wooden hand tool
empty
make void or empty of contents
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