Results for hollow

Definitions of hollow:

part of speech: verb transitive

To make hollow.

part of speech: adjective

Vacant: not solid: containing an empty space: sunken: unsound: insincere.

part of speech: verb transitive

To make a hole in: to make hollow by digging: to excavate.

part of speech: adjective

Having an empty space within; opposite to solid; sunken; superficial; unreal; insincere; deep or low; used of sound.

part of speech: noun

Any depression of surface; a cavity; a pit; a groove.

part of speech: noun

A cavity; pit; groove; space between hills or elevations.

part of speech: verb

To dig or scoop out; to excavate.

part of speech: adjective

Having an empty space within; not solid; deep; not sincere or faithful; not real; false.

part of speech: adverb

Without difficulty, as he carries it hollow; without a chance of success, or beyond a doubt, as he was beaten hollow.

part of speech: noun

A hole: a cavity: any depression in a body: any vacuity: a groove: a channel.

Usage examples for hollow:

• Here was outrage upon outrage committed upon these people, and to tell them to hope and wait for better times, but seemed like speaking hollow words. "Minnie's Sacrifice", Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

• It was there in every line of the pale, hollow cheeks, in her clear, broad brow. "The Heart of Unaga", Ridgwell Cullum

• The enemy divin'd our purpose: and in a minute 'twas a desperate race for the entrance to the hollow "The Splendid Spur", Arthur T. Quiller Couch

• They pulled up beside the house in the hollow "Cy Whittaker's Place", Joseph C. Lincoln