Meaning of hollow | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small valley between mountains
2. A small valley between mountains.
3. A sunken area on a surface.
4. To become hollow or empty.
5. A sunken area on a surface
6. An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
7. Small valley.
8. An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial
9. A feeling of emptiness.
   figuratively
10. holheid تَجْويف، فَراغ вдлъбнатост concavidade dutina, prázdnota die Hohlheit hulhed; tomhed κενότηταoquedad, lo hueco õõnsakõlalisus فرورفتگی onttous creuxריקנות खोखलापन lažnost, neiskrenost üre(ge)sség rongga að vera holur/innantómur cavità, vuoto うつろなこと 움푹 들어감 tuštuma, duslumas tukšums kekosongan holheidhulhetpustka غوچاڼی concavidade scobitură пустота dutosť, prázdnota votlost šupljost ihålighet โพรง boşluk, oyukluk, çukurluk 空洞 пустота کھوکھلاپن sự trũng sâu 空洞
11. A feeling of emptiness
12. to beat thoroughly at a game etc. The local team were beaten hollow by eight goals to one on Saturday. uitstof يَهْزِمُ هزيمة شامِلَه правя на пух и прах arrasar porazit na hlavu völlig besiegen slå godt og grundigt συντρίβωarrasar, aplastar põhjalikult lööma شكست سخت خوردن voittaa ylivoimaisesti battre à plate couture לְהָבִיס जबरदस्त तरीके से हराना totalno poraziti, nadmašiti laposra ver vkit mengalahkan gjörsigra battere, superare 負かす 완전히 이기다 visiškai sumušti galīgi sakaut kādu kalah teruk...
    etc
13. to make a hole in something; to excavate
14. to make hollow. They hollowed out a tree-trunk to make a boat. uithol يُجَوِّف издълбавам escavar vydlabat aushöhlen udhule κοιλαίνω ahuecar õõnestama تهی كردن tehdä ontoksi creuser, évider לְעֲשוֹתו חָלוּל खोखला करना izdupsti, udupsti (ki)váj melubangi hola innan scavare くりぬく 도려내다 išskaptuoti izdobt menebuk uithollenuthule wydrążyć سوری کول escavar a scobi выдалбливать vydlabať izdolbsti izdubiti holka (gröpa) ur, göra ihålig เจาะ içini boşaltmak, oymak 挖空 видовбувати کھوکھلا کرنا khoét rỗng 挖空
15. hueco-a, cóncavo-a.
16. Having a cavity, gap, or space within: a hollow wall.
17. Deeply indented or concave; sunken: "His bearded face already has a set, hollow look" (Conor Cruise O'Brien).
18. Without substance or character: a hollow person. See Synonyms at vain.
19. Devoid of truth or validity; specious: "Theirs is at best a hollow form of flattery" (Annalyn Swan).

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Examples

“He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.”

“c. 1710–20, Matthew Prior, The First Hymn Of Callimachus: To Jupiter Forests grew upon the barren hollows.”

“This road leads through a sandy hollow shaded by trees for about a quarter of a mile, where it crosses the bridge famous in goblin story, and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church.”

“I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood, / Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-red heath, / The red-ribb'd hedges drip with a silent horror of blood, / And Echo there, whatever is ask'd her, answers 'Death.'”

“[T]his is lonesome country; and here in the swamplike hollows where tiger lilies bloom the size of a man's head, there are luminous green logs that shine under the dark marsh water like drowned corpses ..."”

“the hollow of the hand”

“a hollow in a tree trunk”

“a hollow in the pit of one’s stomach”

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