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Empty

adjective

(compar. emptier; superl. emptiest)

1.

Holding or containing nothing. "An empty room" , "Full of empty seats" , "Empty hours"

2.

Devoid of significance or point. Synonyms: hollow, vacuous. "A hollow victory" , "Vacuous comments"

3.

Needing nourishment. Synonym: empty-bellied. "Empty-bellied children"

4.

Emptied of emotion.

verb

(past & past part. emptied; pres. part. emptying)

1.

Make void or empty of contents. "The alarm emptied the building"

2.

Become empty or void of its content. Synonym: discharge.

3.

Leave behind empty; move out of. Synonyms: abandon, vacate.

4.

Remove.

5.

Excrete or discharge from the body. Synonyms: evacuate, void.

noun

(pl. empties)

1.

A container that has been emptied.

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"Empty" Quotes from Famous Books

... same interfering Into other folks' ways I despise, Yet if it so be I was hearing That it's just empty pockets as lies Betwixt you and Joseph, it follers That, having no family claims, Here's my pile; which it's six hundred dollars, As is yours, ...

— By-ways in Book-land - Short Essays on Literary Subjects • William Davenport Adams

... of London, leaning her head on her hand in a dejected posture, showing her sorrow and penitence for her offences; the other hand holds the arms of the city, and a mace lying under it: on the other side is a figure of the Thames, with his legs shackled, and leaning on an empty urn: behind these are two imperial figures; one representing his present majesty; and the other the queen: by the king stands Pallas, (or wisdom and valour,) holding a charter for the city, the king extending his hand, as raising her drooping head, and restoring her to ...

— The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18) - The Duke of Guise; Albion and Albanius; Don Sebastian • John Dryden

... to the action of Sir Theophilus Shepstone and his twenty-five policemen. The Boers were quite unable to pay the taxes necessary to self-government and the prosecution of the Kaffir wars. The Treasury was empty—save for the much-quoted 12s. 6d. The Government L1 bluebacks were selling at 1s. Civil servants' salaries were months in arrear. The President himself—the excitable, unstable, visionary, but truly enlightened ...

— The Transvaal from Within - A Private Record of Public Affairs • J. P. Fitzpatrick

... you make of it, Tom?" asked the mechanician, as he finished his examination of the wallet. "What does it mean? The pocket-book is empty and that—" ...

— Tom Swift and his Air Scout - or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky • Victor Appleton

... as a Prussian soldier, as a friend of the Emperor Alexander, I must decidedly reject any idea of such a desertion. A German keeps his word, and does not trifle with treaties he has sworn to. German fealty has not yet become an empty sound, and France will be obliged to admit that she is struggling with an adversary who does not sell his honor for provinces or for money. Now you know all I had to communicate. Tell Napoleon that intrigues and slanders cannot separate ...

— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach

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