hollowing
空心化,掏空,镂空,中空化
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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
While virtual networking meet ups have become common and create space for less formal conversation, agency execs say that at times it can feel hollow as people are sharing their stories but there’s no need to connect further.
Yes, there is less money in the market, but his outreach to clients via Zoom has been a hollow exercise and says he’s counting the days to have face-to-face meetings again, to travel again, to wear a suit again — to close really big deals again.
When something tastes exactly the same as it has for days or weeks, except no longer good, it feels like reality has gotten hollowed out a tiny bit, and that more could be coming.
If this is too hard, eliminate the rocking motion for a static hollow-body hold.
In 1926, Margaret Barnes of Manchester, England, was rifling through her deceased husband’s belongings when she came upon a hollowed-out eggshell.
He likes to talk about the long sweep of urban history, with the postwar suburb boom hollowing them out.
Locals call it the hollowing out of the city into an empty theme park.
Takeovers of foreign companies and government intervention in the markets have spooked investors, hollowing out key industries.
Don Peck, The Atlantic The Great Recession has accelerated the hollowing-out of the American middle class.
To hollow-out eyes past any reasonable point of eye hollowing-out.
The hollowing of the "shell" is seemingly less delicate, but this may be taken as a natural result of the foregoing.