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  1. 1. a. Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. Source: opted
  4. 4. a. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree. Source: opted
  6. 6. n. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel. Source: opted
  7. 7. v. t. To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate. Source: opted
  8. 8. adv. Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv. Source: opted
  9. 9. interj. Hollo. Source: opted
  10. 10. v. i. To shout; to hollo. Source: opted
  11. 11. v. t. To urge or call by shouting. Source: opted
  12. 12. adj. not solid; having a space or gap or cavity Source: wordnet

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