hollow out
phrasal verbhollow something out
- to make a hole in something by removing part of it
- Hollow out the cake and fill it with cream.
- a gun concealed in a hollowed-out book
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- to form something by making a hole in something else
- The cave has been hollowed out of the mountainside.