hollow
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(verb) remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk" |
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Synonyms: core out, hollow out |
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Related Words: cave, cavern, cavern out, core, dig, dig out, draw in, empty, gouge, groove, hole, rout, scallop, scollop, scoop out, suck in, undermine |
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(satellite adjective) as if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom" |
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(adjective) 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" |
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Antonyms: solid |
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(noun) a small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians" |
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Synonyms: holler |
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Related Words: dell, dingle, vale, valley |
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(noun) a cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks" |
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Related Words: cavity, enclosed space |
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(satellite adjective) devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments" |
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Synonyms: empty, vacuous |
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(satellite adjective) deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses" |
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Synonyms: false |
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(noun) a depression hollowed out of solid matter |
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Synonyms: hole |
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Related Words: burrow, cavity, chuckhole, depression, gopher hole, natural depression, pit, pothole, rabbit burrow, rabbit hole, tunnel, wormhole |
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(verb) remove the inner part or the core of |
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Synonyms: dig, excavate |
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Related Words: ditch, drive, remove, take, take away, trench |
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