empty

Plural: empties

Noun

• a container that has been emptied
• A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.

Verb

Verb Forms: emptied, emptying, empties

• To remove the contents or occupants from something.
• make void or empty of contents
  • "Empty the box"
• become empty or void of its content
• leave behind empty; move out of
• remove
  • "Empty the water"
• excrete or discharge from the body
• To make empty; to remove the contents of.
• Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.

Adjective

• Containing nothing; vacant or hollow.
• holding or containing nothing
  • "an empty glass"
  • "an empty room"
  • "full of empty seats"
  • "empty hours"

Adjective Satellite

• devoid of significance or point
  • "empty promises"
• needing nourishment
  • "after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"
  • "empty-bellied children"
• emptied of emotion
  • "after the violent argument he felt empty"

Adj

• Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
• Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
• Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
• Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
• Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
• Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
• Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
• Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
• Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
• Producing nothing; unfruitful.
• Hungry.
• Lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish.

Examples

• an empty coxcomb
• an empty jug
• an empty purse
• an empty stomach
• An EMPTY tile bag means the game is nearing its end.
• an empty vine
• empty brains
• Empty cow rates have increased in recent years.
• empty dreams
• empty offer
• empty pleasures
• empty promises
• empty words, or threats
• He hoped to EMPTY his rack quickly with a high-scoring play.
• Put the empties out to be recycled.
• Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River.
• The cinema emptied quickly after the end of the film.
• The suspected thief was requested to empty her pockets.
• to empty a well or a cistern

Synonyms

abandon, discharge, empty-bellied, evacuate, hollow, vacate, vacuous, void, clean, clear, empty, empty as a pauper's purse, empty as the tomb on Easter, leer, toom, unfilled, unoccupied, vacant, vacuumlike, void#Verb

Antonyms

fill, full, cramful, cramfull, fraught, freighted, jam rammed, jam-packed, jammed, laden, loaded, non-empty, packed, packed to the gills, packed to the rafters, rammed, rammed to the rafters, stuffed, stuffed to the gills

Related Words

-∅, dead soldier, empty set, ∅, ∅-

Anagrams of empty