Halo, Hallo & Hullo Hello, Hallow, Hollow

Halo, Hallo & Hullo Hello, Hallow, Hollow
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The swamis across India manufacture halo around them however hollow their preaching is because they cultivate meticulous hallow around them by gaining gullible followers. 

The swamis across India manufacture halo around them however hollow their preaching is because they cultivate meticulous hallow around them by gaining gullible followers.

Halo is a noun. Its plural form is haloes or halos; also called aureole or auroela. Halo means aura, corona (around the sun), radiance, nimbus, in philosophical terms it means halation; circle of light around the head or above the head of a figure in paintings, or sketches.

The Indians gods and goddesses often have haloes. Some television anchors are shown with halos around their heads!
Hallo, also spelt as hello or hullo is a popular form of greeting (an interjection, and a noun). Its plural forms are hallos, hellos, hullos.

Hello, how are you?
Hello, here am I.
Halloo is a sound to call out for attention, or to urge the hounds or dogs, goading to act or behave in a particular way.

Hallowed is an adjective meaning something that is holy such as related to religious symbols, rites; spots of religious importance (manmade or mythical), sanctified (as is the case in India because of religious heritage and history), sacred (such as trees and animals), honoured, dedicated, revered, consecrated, sacrosanct, beatified (like Pope beatifies Catholics with saintly status).

Hallow is a verb referring to making something or somebody holy, sacred, reverential. The land of India is hallowed with religious practices, symbols and spots of reverence. In dictatorial regimes, dictators are made to hallow by the people but in democratic countries if the rulers perform supremely well they could be hallowed.

Mahatma Gandhi is a hallowed figure across India. His hallowed stature is spreading: his statues in US, UK, Cuba and others are testimony to this. The variants of the verb hallow are hallows, hallowed, hallowing. Hollow has many meanings. As an adjective it means vacant, void, unfilled, not solid (hollow trunk of the tree, the trunks of drumstick tree are not strong because they are hollow);

concave, indented, cavernous ; worthless, empty, useless, vain, meaningless, pointless, fruitless (his statements are hollow: whatever he says never happens); insincere, false (hollow bravado, hollow talk); dull, muted, expressionless (I dislike hollow expressions); cave, crater (the landscape is hollow here and there because of craters), dimple.

As verb hollow means scoop out something, dig out, groove, furrow often followed by out. He hollowed out two spots on his land to make it swimming pool.

Rationalists could be aroused by hallowing a human being with puja however hollow he or she could be. Hello, do you want to be hallowed or hollowed?

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