hollowed out

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hollowed out

verb

participle, past simple past and past participle of hollow out

adjective hollowed-out

not comparable That has been hollowed out, that has been made hollow. [F]or I may as well say at once that these hollowed-out caves were nothing more nor less than vast catacombs, in which for tens of ages the mortal remains of the great extinct race whose monuments surrounded us had been first preserved[.]

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@misc{hollowed_out_2026,
  title = {hollowed out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hollowed%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}