| 单词 | hollow out |
| 释义 | hollow out (once / 4876 pages) v To hollow out is to scoop or otherwise remove the insides of something. To build a cave, you'll have to hollow out the earth in the side of a hill. During war, soldiers sometimes hollow out trenches they can crouch in for protection from gunfire. Animals, including woodpeckers and several types of insects, also hollow out protective areas for themselves, often from dead wood in trees. And some kinds of drums are also made by hollowing out a piece of wood. Hollow has an Old English root, holh, "hole or hollow place." WORD FAMILYhollow out: hollowed out, hollowing out, hollows out USAGE EXAMPLESWhile large national newspapers and digital native sites do good work, local newspapers have been hollowed out. Slate(Dec 01, 2016) As newsrooms across “Middle America” are hollowed out, most new digital media outlets are concentrated along the blue-tinged coasts of east and west. Salon(Nov 20, 2016) McManus watched as Detroit and Flint hollowed out and caved in. The Guardian(Nov 18, 2016) v remove the interior of Syn|Hypo|Hyper core out, hollow 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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