Synonyms of hollows

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noun

plural of hollow

1

as in holes

a sunken area forming a separate space

made a little hollow in her mound of mashed potatoes and filled it with gravy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• holes
• dents
• pits
• cavities
• furrows
• depressions
• indentations
• valleys
• concavities
• recesses
• ditches
• caves
• caverns
• trenches
• burrows
• dints
• grooves
• indentures
• pockets
• alcoves
• basins
• craters
• bowls
• troughs
• excavations
• gutters
• nooks
• clefts
• openings
• impressions
• dimples
• wells
• gouges
• alveoli
• sockets
• voids
• niches
• abysses
• potholes
• chasms
• imprints
• sinkholes
• notches
• boreholes
• vacuums
• water holes
• postholes
• vacuities
• vacua
• wallows
• gulfs
• chuckholes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• projections
• protrusions
• hills
• bulges
• protuberances
• mounds
• convexities
• rises
• tumors
• cambers
• bumps
• swellings
• humps
• lumps
• juts
• swells
• pimples
• bunches

2

as in valleys

an area of lowland between hills or mountains

a quaint village nestled in a hollow among green hills

Synonyms & Similar Words

• valleys
• ravines
• canyons
• glens
• vales
• gorges
• dales
• gulleys
• gullies
• gulches
• denes
• dells
• coombes
• combes
• depressions
• dingles
• coombs
• bowls
• basins
• rift valleys
• kloofs
• cañons

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• mountains
• peaks
• mounts
• summits
• pinnacles
• heights
• plateaus
• mountaintops
• alps
• plateaux
• tablelands

hollows

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verb

present tense third-person singular of hollow

as in grooves

Synonyms & Similar Words

• grooves
• gouges
• excavates
• burrows (into)
• notches
• penetrates
• slits
• splits
• holes
• slashes
• ruptures
• rends
• cuts
• gashes
• pokes
• pricks
• taps
• bores
• punctures
• breaks
• prickles
• drills
• perforates
• riddles
• punches
• broaches
• pierces

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fills
• seals
• plugs
• patches