hollow out

1. 1.

   remove the interior of

   “hollow out a tree trunk”

   Synonymshollowcore out

   Broaderempty

   Narrowerroutscallopholesuck inscoop outcaverncavedigexcavatecore

Questions about hollow out

What does hollow out mean?

hollow out means "remove the interior of".

What is another word for hollow out?

Close synonyms include hollow, core out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hollow out a common word?

hollow out is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.