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Discover LudwigThe word 'hollowing' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a sense of emptiness or an emotional state, for example: "After the death of her parents, she felt an empty, hollowing loneliness."
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hollowing
verb
Present participle of hollow
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That has a hollowing effect on their spirits.
Of course, One Nation Englishness could prove a flag of convenience for a campaign against the yawning disparaties of wealth, the hollowing out of local democratic institutions and the demonisation of the poor.
It demonstrates the damage caused by the hollowing out of industry since the 1970s.
The home secretary is hollowing out the police service and victims of crime are suffering as a result".
Barlow accuses the Conservatives of hollowing out Canadian civil society, cancelling thousands of programmes, rescinding grants, removing regulations, shutting institutions and rescinding the tax-exempt status of annoying charities.
To his many critics in Budapest, this means hollowing out democracy, retaining a semblance of pluralism while controlling all the key levers.
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And I, for one, intend to fight with everything I've got for every one of those votes".John Edwards in the Wisconsin Democratic debate, February 15thIn this section The great hollowing-out myth And then there were two Primary colour Out in front So you decide Time for him to go? Correction: Fort Bragg ReprintsPastoral moment of the week"Clearly, he lied.
Already conservatives are fighting the measure hard both in the courts and in election politics.In this section The great hollowing-out myth And then there were two Primary colour Out in front So you decide Time for him to go? Correction: Fort Bragg ReprintsThe first two legal challenges to the city have been survived but only just.
New technology has caused a hollowing-out and polarisation of the workforce.
His arrest is part of a wider crackdown on the opposition, intensifying Mr Chávez's hollowing-out of Venezuelan democracy.
This contributes to a hollowing-out of San Francisco: the fastest-growing income bands are the poor, a disproportionate number of whom are black and Latino, and the rich.
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