hollow
中空,空心的,空心,空洞的
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Definitions
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hol·low·er, hol·low·est.
- : having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- : having a depression or concavity: a hollow surface.
- : sunken, as the cheeks or eyes.
- : not resonant; dull, muffled, or deep: a hollow voice.
- : without real or significant worth; meaningless: a hollow victory.
- : insincere or false: hollow compliments.
- : hungry; having an empty feeling: I feel absolutely hollow, so let's eat.
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- : an empty space within anything; a hole, depression, or cavity.
- : a valley: They took the sheep to graze in the hollow.
- : Foundry. a concavity connecting two surfaces otherwise intersecting at an obtuse angle.
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Examples
Even our hospitals are being taken over and hollowed out by Wall Street.
For some, the announcement back in March that he would pick a woman started to ring hollow the longer the search dragged on.
These hornets nest in hollow trees and cozy nooks within walls.
He liked to play in a hollow tree where insect-eating bats used to live.
The explanation for these landmines mainly related to the use of hollow cast iron balls that were presumably filled with gunpowder.
The young man weaves through clusters of bamboo and cuts a diagonal slash into a tree, positioning a hollow log at the end.
But Byrne himself is the parodist, and he commands the stage by his hollow-eyed, frosty verve.
He pressed a hollow shell casing into my palm and leaned towards my ear, “I PICKED IT UP FROM THE BEDROOM!”
It will always ring hollow when people try to turn it into a product—no matter how much Bill Clinton gushes over it.
Last year Fox gifted the world with the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” retelling we never knew we needed.
The next instruments discovered in use among the Indians were straight, hollow reeds and forked canes.
It lit up every ridge and hollow for two or three seconds, and showed me four riders tearing up the slope at a high run.