Past tense of hollow
regular verb
The past tense of hollow is hollowed. The past participle is also hollowed.
Forms of hollow
| Base form (V1) | hollow /ˈhɒləʊ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | hollowed |
| Past participle (V3) | hollowed |
| Present participle | hollowing /ˈhɒləʊɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | hollows |
Hollowed in a sentence
- She had ordered eggplant pirogue — a hollowed out eggplant, breaded, fried, and stuffed with shrimp, crawfish, and crab.2019, Marlys Beider, Continuum, page 257. From the entry pirogue
- Operculum hollowed to form an incubatory pouch, the calcareous lid of which is rejected after use and regenerated.1967, Nellie Barbara Eales, Littoral Fauna of the British Isles, page 96. From the entry worm red
- Red roses for your hair—every petal a hollowed ruby.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry gaud
- Well back under this natural shelter, basined in the hollowed rock, a blessed pool of fair water lay unwrinkled by even a flutter of breeze.2012, Charles King, An Apache Princess: A Tale of the Indian Frontier, page 173. From the entry basin
- It was a monolith of a golden color, opening at its base on to a cavern: its underneath was hollowed out by water.2002, Mary Ann Caws, Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology, page 229. From the entry underneath
Meaning of hollow
- noun A small valley between mountains.
- noun A sunken area on a surface.
- noun An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
Questions about the past tense of hollow
- What is the past tense of hollow?
- The past tense of hollow is hollowed.
- What is the past participle of hollow?
- The past participle of hollow is hollowed.
- Is hollow a regular or irregular verb?
- Hollow is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hollow (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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