hollows
Dips in terrain
Hollows are depressions, cavities, or sunken areas—places where something has been scooped out or naturally recedes.
The word often describes small valleys or dells in hilly terrain: They lived in one of the hollows back in the mountains.
Hollows can also be anatomical: the hollows of her cheeks, the hollow at the base of the throat.
As a verb, hollows means makes hollow: Water hollows out the stone over centuries.
Inward cut or setback
- concavityInward-curving surface quality
- dentShallow surface depression
- dimpleFacial skin depression
- craterImpact or volcanic basin
depression · recess · socket · pit · cavity · pocket · groove · furrow
indentation
Inward cut or setback
crater · depression · recess · socket · pit · cavity · pocket · groove · furrow · trough
valley
Low ground between heights
basin · ravine · gully · swale · gulch · canyon · vale · depression · dip · draw
void
Without legal effect
space · gap · chasm · abyss · absence · blankness · vacuity · gulf · expanse · nothingness
- landformsmountain, cliff, valley, volcano, mountain ridge
- compartmentscompartments, cubbies, cubbyholes, pigeonholes, niches
- dark forestshadows, gloom, moonlight, owls, wolves
- forest featurespine trees, redwoods, old-growth forest, oak trees, sequoias
- irregularitiesbumps, dents, ridges, grooves, ripples
- tree partstrunk, branches, branch, bark, root
hollowsbulges
Outward swellings or projections
protrusions · bumps · swells · lumps · projections
- hollow outRemove interior contents
- hollowed outInterior material removed
- ring hollowSeem insincere when spoken
- hollowing outRemoving interior material
- hollow victoryTriumph devoid of reward
- hollow legCapacity to consume endlessly
hollow, hollowed, hollowness, hollowing, hollower, hollowest, hollow out