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What does the word hollow mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To make or become hollow.

Part of speech: noun

A depression or opening; an enclosed cavity.

Part of speech: adjective

Having a cavity, as a tube, jar, or the like.

Part of speech: adjective

Empty; vacant; sounding like the reverberation from an empty vessel or cavity; deep; murmuring.

Usage examples for hollow

He was home, and Garrity held him in the hollow of his hand. – Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Burt L. Standish
" The wall is hollow here," she said. – Hildegarde's Neighbors by Laura E. Richards
This dwelling likewise we abandon; and leaving some few behind, spread our sails and run over the waste sea in our hollow wood. – The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil