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beat hollow (third-person singular simple present beats hollow, present participle beating hollow, simple past beat hollow, past participle beaten hollow or (colloquial) beat hollow)
- (transitive) To beat up (a person) severely.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat severely.
1845, Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Complete Poems, University of Illinois Press, published 2000, page 351:"The Raven" has had a great run ... but I wrote it for the express purpose of running — just as I did "The Gold-Bug" ... the bird beat the bug, though, all hollow.
1881, Charles Darwin, “letter”, in Darwin Correspondence Database, retrieved 2013-07-07:The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence.
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