Hollywood

Definition

hollow /'hɒlǝƱ/ adj ၁။ အေခါင္းေပါက္ရိွေသာ။ ေခါင္းပြ။ a hollow tree/ ball ❍I tapped the wall to see if it was hollow. ၂။ ခ်ဳိင့္ခြက္ေသာ။ ခ်ဳိင့္ဝင္ေနေသာ။ ေခ်ာင္က်ေနေသာ။ hollow cheeks ❍ hollow-eyed from lack of sleep. ၃။ လိုဏ္သံပါေသာ။ a hollow groan ❍ a hollow knocking sound. ၄။ (က) ေပါ့တန္ေသာ။ အႏွစ္သာရမရိွေသာ။ a hollow promise ❍ She gave a hollow laugh. ❍ His words rang hollow. (ခ) အႏွစ္မပါ ဗလာ သက္သက္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ဗလာျဖစ္ေသာ။ hollow threats ❍ win a hollow victory. n (က) တြင္းႀကီး။ ခ်ဳိင့္ႀကီး။ damp / muddy hollows. (ခ) ခ်ဳိင့္။ ခ်ဳိင္။ ေခ်ာင္။ a wooded/ shady hollow. (ဂ) လိုဏ္။ အခြက္။ လက္ခုပ္။ She held the small bird in the hollow of her hand. ❏ hollowly adv : He laughed hollowly. သူ ဟန္လုပ္၍ ရယ္သည္။ ❏ hollowness n [U] အေယာင္ေဆာင္ျခင္း။ အတုအပလုပ္ျခင္း။ expose the hollowness of sb's claims. ❏ hollow sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ အေခါင္းေပါက္ထြင္းသည္၊ တူးသည္။ a canoe made from a hollowed-out log. ၂။ အေခါင္းေပါက္၊ အခ်ဳိင့္၊ အခြက္ ျဖစ္သည္။ hollow out a nest in a tree-trunk ❍ caves hollowed out ( of the cliff) by the waves.

Examples

1. The tree trunk was completely hollow.
2. Hollow chocolate eggs
3. The government’s election promises now seem increasingly hollow.
4. A hollow display of friendship
5. We had won
6. but it was a hollow victory.