hollow

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1. hollow - Noun

2. hollow - Adjective

3. hollow - Verb

4. hollow - Adverb

5. hollow - Interjection

7. hollow - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Hollo.

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.

Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.

Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.

Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.

A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.

A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.

To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.

Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.

To shout; to hollo.

To urge or call by shouting.

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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism. Laura Riding

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light. Ernest Hemingway

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. Thomas Wolfe

One sees the sky through a hollow reed. Japanese Proverb

Drums sound loud because they are hollow. Hindi Proverb

The hollow of the ear is never full. African Proverb

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