hollow (out)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hollow (out)
Verb
  • Outside one house on Tuesday evening, seven people quickly moved large tree branches away from the structure and shoveled sand onto the fire in a desperate attempt to keep the blaze from spreading from the house next door, according to the AP.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Hayes is now a long ways away from his teenage years shoveling driveways, and his early career as a postal-service worker.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Archaeologists excavated the underground burial and found a secondary connecting structure.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • While excavating the ruins, archaeologists from the University of Haifa's Zinman Institute of Archaeology were struck by a floor design at the entrance of an ancient building.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Hollow (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hollow%20%28out%29. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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