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Meaning Of Hollow

  1. a.
    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.
  2. a.
    Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
  3. a.
    Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
  4. a.
    Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
  5. n.
    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.
  6. n.
    A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
  7. v. t.
    To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.
  8. adv.
    Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.
  9. interj.
    Hollo.
  10. v. i.
    To shout; to hollo.
  11. v. t.
    To urge or call by shouting.



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