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Hollow
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- 1 Having an empty space or cavity inside.
"a hollow tree; a hollow sphere"
- 2 Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
"He let out a hollow moan."
- 3 Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless. figuratively
"a hollow victory"
- 4 Insincere, devoid of validity; specious. figuratively
"a hollow promise"
- 5 Concave; gaunt; sunken.
"To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow"
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- 6 Pertaining to hollow body position
- 7 Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
"While most 1974s remain hard, tannic, hollow wines lacking ripeness, flesh, and character, a number of the Graves estates did produce surprisingly spicy, interesting wines."
- 1 lacking in substance or character wordnet
- 2 devoid of significance or force wordnet
- 3 as if echoing in a hollow space wordnet
- 4 not solid; having a space or gap or cavity wordnet
- 1 Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow. colloquial, not-comparable
- 1 Alternative form of hollo. alt-of, alternative
- 1 A small valley between mountains.
"He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies."
- 2 a depression hollowed out of solid matter wordnet
- 3 A sunken area on a surface.
"the hollow of the hand"
- 4 a small valley between mountains wordnet
- 5 An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
"a hollow in a tree trunk"
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- 6 a cavity or space in something wordnet
- 7 A feeling of emptiness. figuratively
"a hollow in the pit of one’s stomach"
- 1 to make a hole in something; to excavate transitive
- 2 To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.
"[T]he Converſation (if it may be called ſo) was ſeldom ſuch as could entertain a Lady. It conſiſted chiefly of Hollowing, Singing, Relations of ſporting Adventures, B—d—y, and Abuſe of Women and of the Government."
- 3 remove the interior of wordnet
- 4 remove the inner part or the core of wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holwȝ, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *holh, from Proto-Germanic *hulhwą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱólḱwos. Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Related to hole.
From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holwȝ, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *holh, from Proto-Germanic *hulhwą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱólḱwos. Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Related to hole.
From Middle English holowe, holwe, holuȝ, holgh, from the noun (see above).
From Middle English holowe, holwe, holuȝ, holgh, from the noun (see above).
Compare holler.
Compare holler.
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