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hollow out

/hol-oh/US // ˈhɒl oʊ //UK // (ˈhɒləʊ) //

掏空,挖空,掏空了,掏出来的

Related Words

muted缄默的,沉默的,缄默不语,缄默fruitless不结果,不结果的,没有结果的,没有结果worthless一文不值,一文不值的,一钱不值,无用的futile徒劳的,徒劳无益,徒劳无功,徒劳pointless无意义的,无意义,毫无意义,毫无意义的empty空,空的,空空如也,空荡荡的useless无用的,无用,没有用的,毫无用处flimsy单薄,单薄的,脆弱的,薄薄的cavern洞穴,岩洞,山洞,洞穴里sunken沉没的,沉没,沉沉的,沉陷的depressed消沉的,沮丧的,郁闷,郁闷的void空白,空虚,空缺,空无vaulted拱形的,拱形,穹顶式,拱状的curved弯曲的,弯弯曲曲的,弧形,弧形的cleft裂缝,裂纹,裂隙,裂口notched有缺口的,有缺口,有凹槽的,带槽口的arched拱形的,拱形,拱起的,拱起indented缩进,缩进的,缩进了,缩排dimpled凹陷的,凹陷,凹凸不平的,凹凸不平cupped凹陷的,凹陷,凹陷型,凹陷式

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make hollow: to hollow out a log.
    • : to form by making something hollow: to hollow a place in the sand; boats hollowed out of logs.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become hollow.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a hollow manner: The politician's accusations rang hollow.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inundermine
Synonyms
blunt直言不讳,直率的,钝的,直率cripple跛脚,跛子,跛脚的,残废erode冲蚀,侵蚀,腐蚀,蚀frustrate沮丧,挫折,挫败,沮丧的hurt伤害,负伤,伤痛,受伤的impair减损,损害,损伤,减值ruin破坏,毁坏,毁掉,毁了sabotage破坏,破坏行为,破坏活动,破坏行动sap汁液,汁水,肥皂水,肥皂subvert颠覆,推翻,转移,翻转threaten威胁,威胁说,恐吓,威胁到thwart阻挠,阻挠了,阻碍,阻止torpedo鱼雷,水雷,舰艇,舰艇导弹undercut暗切,暗割,暗减,暗切口wreck残骸,失事,破坏,沉船attenuate衰减,递减,衰减的,渐进式corrode锈蚀,腐蚀,侵蚀,腐蚀性debilitate衰弱,削弱,衰弱的,弱化dig挖掘,挖掘机,挖出,挖disable禁用,停用,丧失功能,停用功能enfeeble衰弱,衰弱的,削弱,减弱excavate开挖,发掘,挖掘,挖出foil箔,箔片,箔纸,挫折mine矿井,我的,矿山,矿场sandbag沙袋,沙包,砂袋,砂包soften变得柔和,变得柔软,变得柔和了,变得柔和起来tunnel隧道,地道,隧道内,隧道里wear穿着,磨损,穿戴,磨损程度clip one's wings夹住翅膀,剪掉翅膀,剪断翅膀,夹起翅膀dig out挖出来,挖出,挖出来的,挖掉eat away吃掉,吃掉了,吃了,吃光knock the bottom out of跌破底线,撞破底层,撞破底层的,撞破poke full of holes捅破脑袋,捅破天,捅娄子,捅破头whittle away消磨掉,消磨掉了,消磨,消磨时间
as inburrow
Synonyms
delve深入研究,探讨,深入了解,深究excavate开挖,发掘,挖掘,挖出tunnel隧道,地道,隧道内,隧道里undermine损害,破坏,颠覆,削弱scoop out挖出,挖出来的,舀出,挖出来

Examples

  • Even our hospitals are being taken over and hollowed out by Wall Street.

  • For some, the announcement back in March that he would pick a woman started to ring hollow the longer the search dragged on.

  • These hornets nest in hollow trees and cozy nooks within walls.

  • He liked to play in a hollow tree where insect-eating bats used to live.

  • The explanation for these landmines mainly related to the use of hollow cast iron balls that were presumably filled with gunpowder.

  • The young man weaves through clusters of bamboo and cuts a diagonal slash into a tree, positioning a hollow log at the end.

  • But Byrne himself is the parodist, and he commands the stage by his hollow-eyed, frosty verve.

  • He pressed a hollow shell casing into my palm and leaned towards my ear, “I PICKED IT UP FROM THE BEDROOM!”

  • It will always ring hollow when people try to turn it into a product—no matter how much Bill Clinton gushes over it.

  • Last year Fox gifted the world with the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” retelling we never knew we needed.

  • The next instruments discovered in use among the Indians were straight, hollow reeds and forked canes.

  • It lit up every ridge and hollow for two or three seconds, and showed me four riders tearing up the slope at a high run.

  • The formula would be: “The pump invented—Drain a well ,” or Water raised in a hollow.

  • But, just as they were piling some more leaves in the hollow stump, they heard many voices of men shouting in the woods.

  • That hollow is a very likely place for one of them to run along, therefore the best shot among you had better go up there.

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