hollow
Other forms: hollows; hollowed; hollowly; hollowing; hollower; hollowest
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.
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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”synonyms:emptyholding or containing nothingcavernousbeing or suggesting a caverncannular, tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular, vasiformconstituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids)
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as if echoing in a hollow space“the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom”synonyms:reverberanthaving a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected
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devoid of significance or point“a hollow victory”
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a cavity or space in something
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a depression hollowed out of solid mattersynonyms: holetypes:gopher holea hole in the ground made by gopherskettle, kettle hole(geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial depositswormholea tunnel made by a burrowing soft-bodied animal or insect larvatrou-de-loupa sloping pit with a stake in the middle used as an obstacle to the enemybarbecue pita pit where wood or charcoal is burned to make a bed of hot coals suitable for barbecuing meatborrow pita pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another sitedivot(golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a strokefire pita pit whose floor is incandescent lavaquicksanda pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked downsandpita large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dugsawpita pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed sawtar pita natural accumulation of bitumens at the surface of the earth; often acts as a trap for animals whose bones are thus preservedtype of:
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a small valley between mountains
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remove the inner part or the core of
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remove the interior of“hollow out a tree trunk”synonyms: core out, hollow outtypes:holemake holes inscoop outhollow out with a scoopexcavateform by hollowingcoreremove the core or center fromsapexcavate the earth beneathlifttake (root crops) out of the groundtrenchdig a trench or trenchesdibblemake a hole with a wooden hand tooltype of:emptymake void or empty of contents
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