Definition

To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate. "Trees rudely hollowed." Dryden.

Other Definitions

This word also has 4 other definitions:

HOLLOW (adjective)

1. 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...

HOLLOW (adverb)

Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv. [Collog.]...

HOLLOW (interjection)

Hollo.

HOLLOW (noun)

1. 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. 2. A ...