| 单词 | hollow |
| 释义 | hollow (once / 171 pages) adjnv If something is hollow, it is empty on the inside. A chocolate Easter bunny looks like so much chocolate until you realize that it is hollow and quickly eaten. The idea of emptiness is apparent in the other uses for hollow too. A valley between mountains is called a hollow and if you're really thin, you may have hollow cheeks. Things like words and promises are hollow if the person uttering them does not intend to keep them. And a hollow victory is not very satisfying, as it means that you have reached your goal, but lost something more important along the way. WORD FAMILYhollow: hollowed, hollower, hollowest, hollowing, hollowly, hollowness, hollows+/hollowness: hollownesses USAGE EXAMPLESOne of the beefs with “Captain Fantastic” is that it promotes an all-or-nothing extremism that rings hollow. Salon(Dec 30, 2016) The supernatural drama “Sleepy Hollow” scares up a fourth season. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) She dismissed them as harsh judgments and hollow words from people she did not trust. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1adj not solid; having a space or gap or cavity a hollow wall a hollow tree hollow cheeks his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year Syn|Ant empty holding or containing nothing cavernousbeing or suggesting a cavern deep-set, recessed, sunkenhaving a sunken area fistular, fistulate, fistuloushollow and tube-shaped like a reed cannular, tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular, vasiformconstituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) solid entirely of one substance with no holes inside massivebeing the same substance throughout 2adj as if echoing in a hollow space the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom Syn reverberant having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected 3adj devoid of significance or point a hollow victory Syn empty, vacuous meaningless, nonmeaningful having no meaning or direction or purpose 4n a cavity or space in something hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks Hyper cavity, enclosed space space that is surrounded by something 5n a depression hollowed out of solid matter Syn|Hypo|Hyper hole burrow, tunnel a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter gopher holea hole in the ground made by gophers kettle, kettle hole(geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits cavity, pita sizeable hole (usually in the ground) chuckhole, potholea pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface) rabbit burrow, rabbit holea hole in the ground as a nest made by wild rabbits wormholehole made by a burrowing worm trou-de-loupa sloping pit with a stake in the middle used as an obstacle to the enemy barbecue pita pit where wood or charcoal is burned to make a bed of hot coals suitable for barbecuing meat borrow pita pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another site divot(golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke fire pita pit whose floor is incandescent lava quicksanda pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down sandpita large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dug sawpita pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed saw tar pita natural accumulation of bitumens at the surface of the earth; often acts as a trap for animals whose bones are thus preserved rabbit warren, warrena series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits depression, natural depression a sunken or depressed geological formation 6n a small valley between mountains he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians Syn|Hypo|Hyper holler dell, dingle a small wooded hollow vale, valley a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river 7v remove the inner part or the core of Syn|Hypo|Hyper dig, excavate drive excavate horizontally ditch, trenchcut a trench in, as for drainage remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract 8v remove the interior of hollow out a tree trunk Syn|Hypo|Hyper core out, hollow out gouge, rout make a groove in scallop, scollopform scallops in holemake holes in draw in, suck indraw in as if by suction scoop outhollow out with a scoop cavern, cavern outhollow out as if making a cavern cave, underminehollow out as if making a cave or opening dig, dig outcreate by digging excavateform by hollowing coreremove the core or center from sapexcavate the earth beneath lifttake (root crops) out of the ground trenchdig a trench or trenches dibblemake a hole with a wooden hand tool empty make void or empty of contents |
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