Wood – How to reduce the size of screw holes for a door hinge, where door is hollow

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This image shows one of the hinges on a hollow door that's correctly affixed.

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I just discovered this hidden at the bottom of a door that's held on by 3 hinges like this so it wasn't impacting the door. One screw is missing and the other is obviously not the original screw. The holes have become too big to hold the screws. I was planning on buying a couple of the correctly sized screws but how do I reduce the size of those holes?

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Update #1: The linked (possible duplicate) question deals with a solid wood door. This is a hollow core door so those solutions won't work. My mistake that I didn't specify this in the original question.

Update #2: I estimate that the thickness of wood that I'm dealing with is about 3/16" so there is very little wood to work with here because it's a hollow core door.

Best Answer

Common way is using toothpicks/wooden matches and wood glue. Fill hole with glue and tooth picks and let dry. Cut any wood sticking out of hole with a knife. Drill pilot hole and will be able to use proper screws again.
Can also drill out holes to fit small wood dowels attached with glue, but more work.