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hollowed

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

中空的,凹陷的,掏空的,中空

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adj.形容词 adjective
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    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
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    • : 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
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    • : 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
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    • : to become hollow.
adv.副词 adverb
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    • : in a hollow manner: The politician's accusations rang hollow.

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Examples

  • You can choose to use a router, hollow chisel mortiser, or chisel to create your mortises.

  • For many developers, such as Epic’s Sweeney, that explanation rings hollow.

  • That rings rather hollow if these leaders are not willing to take positions in support of the very system that has allowed them to become big wheels.

  • Take Nestlé’s first attempt at a sugar-reducing technology that hollowed out the molecules in order to cut sugar by about a third without compromising the desired sweetness.

  • Showerheads are hollow and will float, most likely with the holes facing up—which clearly defeats the purpose.

  • A boiling brew is scooped into makeshift bowls—hollowed out coconut halves.

  • Outside the windows, slides and bridges that look like hollowed-out branches snake atop the buildings.

  • If Democrats had taken this attitude in the 1980s, Social Security today might be a hollowed-out shadow from the past.

  • Meanwhile, budget cuts or no budget cuts, the military budget is being hollowed out from within by rising military health costs.

  • Dingoes make their homes in hollowed out logs, dens, or rabbit holes.

  • The president looked up and fastened eyes that themselves bulged from hollowed sockets.

  • It lies on the river Chumbal, which has here hollowed out for itself a remarkably deep bed in the rock.

  • She had hollowed out a place for my hips to lie more easily, and pulled grasses for my bed.

  • The bodies of the drums were made from sections of trees which I found already hollowed out by the ants.

  • On it was a stone pot, hollowed, like the lamp, out of a large stone.