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empty

• (a) holding or containing nothing
  • an empty glass
  • an empty room
  • full of empty seats
  • empty hours
• (s) devoid of significance or point
  • empty promises
  • a hollow victory
  • vacuous comments
  vacuous, hollow,
• (s) needing nourishment
  • after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime
  • empty-bellied children
  empty-bellied,
• (s) emptied of emotion
  • after the violent argument he felt empty

Nouns

• (n) a container that has been emptied
  • return all empties to the store

Verbs

• (v) make void or empty of contents
  • Empty the box
  • The alarm emptied the building
• (v) become empty or void of its content
  • The room emptied
  discharge,
• (v) leave behind empty; move out of
  • You must vacate your office by tonight
  vacate, abandon,
• (v) remove
  • Empty the water
• (v) excrete or discharge from the body void, evacuate,

Synonyms

discharge vacuous hollow vacate abandon empty-bellied void evacuate

Antonyms

fill fill up make full full

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