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hollows out

hollows out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hollow out.

Meaning of hollow out

Verb

hollow out (third-person singular simple present hollows out, present participle hollowing out, simple past and past participle hollowed out)

  1. (transitive) To make something hollow.
    • After we have crossed the Glenderamackin stream, which drains the northern slopes of Saddleback, and the latter has united with the St. John's Beck to form the Greta, however, we see ahead the miniature canyon the Greta has hollowed out for itself, and into the depth of which the train now descends.1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601
    Synonyms:
    cave, spoon
  2. (intransitive) To become hollow.
  3. (transitive) To reduce the power or influence of something.

Questions about hollows out

What is hollows out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Hollows out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hollow out.

Words near hollows out in the dictionary

  1. hollowroot
  2. hollowroots
  3. hollows
  4. hollows of the knee
  5. hollows of the knees
  6. hollows out
  7. hollowware
  8. hollowwares
  9. hollowwort
  10. Holls
  11. Hollstein

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hollows out (page history and authors); hollow out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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