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hollow out

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hollow something out
to make the inside of something hollow. Martha hollowed the book out and put her money inside. She hollowed out a book.
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In 1976, Union Carbide filed for a patent on a new "web" molding process that injected gas to hollow out substantially all of a part and leave only a random pattern of supporting ribs between two skins.
Rather than allowing the gas to enter the melt and hollow out channels within the part, both these gas-assist methods apply the gas to localized areas of the part surface.
 
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