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emp·ty

 (ĕmp′tē)

adj. emp·ti·er, emp·ti·est

1.

a. Having nothing inside or on the surface; holding or containing nothing: an empty bag; an empty lot.

b. Mathematics Having no elements or members; null: an empty set.

2.

a. Having no occupants; not being used: an empty chair.

b. Not having an incumbent or occupant; unfilled: an empty post at the embassy.

c. Not put to purposeful use; idle: empty hours.

3. Lacking force or power: an empty threat.

4. Lacking purpose or substance; meaningless: an empty life.

5. Needing nourishment; hungry: "More fierce and more inexorable far / Than empty tigers or the roaring sea" (Shakespeare).

6. Devoid; destitute: empty of pity.

v. emp·tied, emp·ty·ing, emp·ties

v.tr.

1. To remove the contents of: emptied the dishwasher.

2. To transfer or pour off completely: empty the ashes into a pail.

3. To unburden; relieve: empty oneself of doubt.

v.intr.

1. To become empty: The theater emptied after the performance.

2. To discharge its contents: The river empties into a bay.

n. pl. emp·ties Informal

An empty container.


[Middle English, from Old English ǣmtig, vacant, unoccupied, from ǣmetta, leisure; see med- in Indo-European roots.]


emp′ti·ly adv.

emp′ti·ness n.

Synonyms: empty, vacant, blank, void, vacuous
These adjectives mean without contents that could or should be present. Empty is the broadest and can apply to what lacks contents (an empty box), occupants (an empty seat), or substance (an empty promise). Vacant has a similar range of application, including lacking an occupant (a vacant auditorium), an incumbent (a vacant position), or something useful or substantial (a vacant lot); it can also refer to what is without intelligence or expression (a vacant stare). Blank applies specifically to the absence of writing or images on a surface (a blank page; a blank screen) and can extend to a lack of awareness or understanding (a blank look). Void emphasizes the utter degree to which something is lacking, whether physical (a planet void of life) or intangible (a humdrum performance void of spirit or energy). Vacuous describes what is lacking in substance, interest, or intelligence (vacuous entertainment; a vacuous personality). See Also Synonyms at vain.

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empty

(ˈɛmptɪ)

adj, -tier or -tiest

1. (Mathematics) containing nothing

2. without inhabitants; vacant or unoccupied

3. carrying no load, passengers, etc

4. without purpose, substance, or value: an empty life.

5. insincere or trivial: empty words.

6. not expressive or vital; vacant: she has an empty look.

7. informal hungry

8. (foll by: of) devoid; destitute: a life empty of happiness.

9. informal drained of energy or emotion: after the violent argument he felt very empty.

10. (Mathematics) maths logic (of a set or class) containing no members

11. (Logic) philosophy logic (of a name or description) having no reference

vb, -ties, -tying or -tied

12. to make or become empty

13. (when: intr, foll by into) to discharge (contents)

14. (often foll by: of) to unburden or rid (oneself): to empty oneself of emotion.

n, pl -ties

an empty container, esp a bottle

[Old English ǣmtig, from æmetta free time, from æ- without + -metta, from mōtan to be obliged to; see must1]

ˈemptiable adj

ˈemptier n

ˈemptily adv

ˈemptiness n

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emp•ty

(ˈɛmp ti)

adj. -ti•er, -ti•est, adj.

1. containing nothing; devoid of contents.

2. vacant; unoccupied.

3. devoid of human activity.

4. hollow; meaningless.

5. unemployed; idle: empty days.

6. Math. (of a set) containing no elements; null; void.

7. hungry.

8. frivolous; foolish.

v.t.

9. to make empty.

10. to discharge (contents).

v.i.

11. to become empty.

12. to debouch: The river empties into the sea.

n.

13. an empty container.

Idioms:

running on empty, having lost vitality, significance, or creative abilities.

[before 900; Middle English; Old English ǣmettig vacant]

emp′ti•a•ble, adj.

emp′ti•er, n.

emp′ti•ly, adv.

emp′ti•ness, n.

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empty

- First meant "at leisure, unoccupied," and it could also mean "unmarried."

See also related terms for leisure.

Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.

empty


Past participle: emptied
Gerund: emptying
Imperative
empty
empty
Present
I empty
you empty
he/she/it empties
we empty
you empty
they empty
Preterite
I emptied
you emptied
he/she/it emptied
we emptied
you emptied
they emptied
Present Continuous
I am emptying
you are emptying
he/she/it is emptying
we are emptying
you are emptying
they are emptying
Present Perfect
I have emptied
you have emptied
he/she/it has emptied
we have emptied
you have emptied
they have emptied
Past Continuous
I was emptying
you were emptying
he/she/it was emptying
we were emptying
you were emptying
they were emptying
Past Perfect
I had emptied
you had emptied
he/she/it had emptied
we had emptied
you had emptied
they had emptied
Future
I will empty
you will empty
he/she/it will empty
we will empty
you will empty
they will empty
Future Perfect
I will have emptied
you will have emptied
he/she/it will have emptied
we will have emptied
you will have emptied
they will have emptied
Future Continuous
I will be emptying
you will be emptying
he/she/it will be emptying
we will be emptying
you will be emptying
they will be emptying
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been emptying
you have been emptying
he/she/it has been emptying
we have been emptying
you have been emptying
they have been emptying
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been emptying
you will have been emptying
he/she/it will have been emptying
we will have been emptying
you will have been emptying
they will have been emptying
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been emptying
you had been emptying
he/she/it had been emptying
we had been emptying
you had been emptying
they had been emptying
Conditional
I would empty
you would empty
he/she/it would empty
we would empty
you would empty
they would empty
Past Conditional
I would have emptied
you would have emptied
he/she/it would have emptied
we would have emptied
you would have emptied
they would have emptied

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun1.empty - a container that has been emptiedempty - a container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store"

container - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)

Verb1.empty - make void or empty of contents; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building"

alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"

bail - empty (a vessel) by bailing

clean out, clear out - empty completely; "We cleaned out all the drawers"

bleed - drain of liquid or steam; "bleed the radiators"; "the mechanic bled the engine"

evacuate - empty completely; "evacuate the bottle"

evacuate - create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)

eviscerate - remove the contents of; "eviscerate the stomach"

void - clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something; "The chemist voided the glass bottle"; "The concert hall was voided of the audience"

clear - remove the occupants of; "Clear the building"

clear - rid of instructions or data; "clear a memory buffer"

exhaust - use up the whole supply of; "We have exhausted the food supplies"

knock out - empty (as of tobacco) by knocking out; "knocked out a pipe"

drain - empty of liquid; drain the liquid from; "We drained the oil tank"

core out, hollow out, hollow - remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk"

gut - empty completely; destroy the inside of; "Gut the building"

fill, fill up, make full - make full, also in a metaphorical sense; "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride"

2.empty - become empty or void of its content; "The room emptied"

change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"

flow away, flow off - flow off or away gradually; "The water flowed off from the pipe"

fill, fill up - become full; "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theater filled up slowly"

3.empty - leave behind emptyempty - leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight"

go forth, leave, go away - go away from a place; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight"

4.empty - remove; "Empty the water"

remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"

unlade, unload, offload - take the load off (a container or vehicle); "unload the truck"; "offload the van"

5.empty - excrete or discharge from the body

egest, excrete, eliminate, pass - eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"

suction - empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction; "suction the uterus in an abortion"

Adj.1.empty - holding or containing nothing; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours"

full - containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"; "a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing"

2.empty - devoid of significance or pointempty - devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments"

meaningless, nonmeaningful - having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation"

3.empty - needing nourishment; "after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"; "empty-bellied children"

hungry - feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a world full of hungry people"

4.empty - emptied of emotion; "after the violent argument he felt empty"

drained - emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid); "a drained marsh"; "a drained tank"; "a drained and apathetic old man...not caring any longer about anything"

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empty

adjective

1. bare, clear, abandoned, deserted, vacant, free, void, desolate, destitute, uninhabited, unoccupied, waste, unfurnished, untenanted, without contents, MT (S.M.S.) The room was bare and empty.
bare full, stuffed, packed, occupied, inhabited

2. meaningless, cheap, hollow, vain, idle, trivial, ineffective, futile, insubstantial, insincere, MT (S.M.S.) His father said he was going to beat him, but he knew it was an empty threat.

verb

1. clear, drain, gut, void, unload, pour out, unpack, unburden, remove the contents of, MT (S.M.S.) I emptied the ashtray.
clear fill, stuff, pack, cram

3. evacuate, clear, vacate, MT (S.M.S.) a bore who could empty a room in two minutes just by talking about his therapy

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

empty

adjective

2. Lacking value, use, or substance:

3. Lacking intelligent thought or content:

4. Not having a desirable element:

Idiom: in want of.

verb

1. To remove the contents of.Also used with out:

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Translations

القَنّينَه الفارِغَهخالٍخالٍ منفارِغفارِغ، لا تَأثير لَه، لا يَتَنَفَّذ

prázdnývyprázdnit

tomtømmefalde udhælde

malplena

tyhjätyhjentää

ispraznitiprazan

kifolyatüresürít

auîur, mannlausinnantómur, merkingarlaustæmatæma; hella ; detta úrtóm flaska

空にする空の空っぽな

(든 것을) 비우다

ištuštėtiištuštintiišverstituščia taratuščiagalvis

izbērtizlietiztukšotiztukšotiesneapdzīvots

vid

jalovýneobývanýprázdna fľašavyprázdniť sa

prazenprazniti

tomtömma

ทำให้ว่างเปล่าว่างเปล่า

dốc ratrống rỗng

empty

[ˈemptɪ]

A. ADJ (emptier (compar) (emptiest (superl)))

1. (= containing nothing, nobody) [box, bottle, glass, street, room, hands] → vacío; [seat, chair] (in bus, restaurant) → libre, desocupado; (in living room) → vacío; [place] → desierto; [landscape] → desierto, desolado; [gun] → descargado; [post, job] → vacante
the flat next door is empty (= unoccupied) → el piso de al lado está desocupado
to be empty of sth the parks are empty of childrenen los parques no hay niños
his face was empty of all expressionsu rostro no expresaba ninguna emoción
she was staring into empty spacemiraba al infinito
there was an empty space at the tablehabía un sitio vacío or sin ocupar en la mesa
on an empty stomachen ayunas, con el estómago vacío
empty vessels make the most noisemucho ruido y pocas nueces

3. (= numb) [person] → vacío; [feeling] → de vacío
when I heard the news I felt emptycuando me enteré de la noticia me sentí vacío

B. N

1. (usu pl) (= empty bottle) → envase m (vacío), casco m (vacío); (= empty glass) → vaso m (vacío)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

empty

[ˈɛmpti]

adj

(= containing nothing) [container, bottle, glass, plate, pockets] → vide; [space, room, house, seat] → vide; [street, area] → désert(e)
empty of → vide de
to stand empty [house, building] → être vide
on an empty stomach → à jeun

vt

[+ solid contents] → vider; [+ liquid contents] → verser
to empty sth into sth (= pour out) → verser qch dans qch

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

empty

adj (+er)

leer; (= unoccupied) houseleer stehend attr; seat, chair, space, placefrei; apart from them the room was emptyaußer ihnen war niemand im Zimmer; there were no empty seats on the busim Bus waren keine Plätze frei; she was staring into empty spacesie starrte ins Leere; the house was just an empty shelldas Haus bestand nur aus nackten Mauern; on an empty stomachmit leerem Magen; take drug, drink alcoholauf leeren Magen; to be running on empty (person, organization etc) → am Ende sein; my car is running on emptyich habe kein Benzin mehr; empty vessels make the most sound (Prov) → die am wenigsten zu sagen haben, reden am meisten ? also empty-headed, empty-handed

(fig: = meaningless, dreary) words, phrase, marriage, gesture, promise, threat, feelingleer; dream, hopeverloren; life, days, weeksleer, unausgefüllt; (= expressionless) face, expression, eyesleer, ausdruckslos; empty rhetoricleeres Gerede; an empty exerciseeine leere Formalität; to feel emptyein leeres Gefühl or ein Gefühl ntder Leere haben; that empty feelingdieses leere Gefühl, dieses Gefühl der Leere

n usu pl emptiesLeergut nt

vt

(= pour) liquid, contentsausgießen, leeren; he emptied it into another containerer goss es in ein anderes Gefäß um


empty

:

empty nesters

pl Eltern, deren Kinder erwachsen und aus dem Haus sind

empty nest syndrome

n Syndrom bei Eltern, wenn ihre Kinder (erwachsen und) aus dem Haus sind

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

empty

[ˈɛmptɪ]

1. (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) adj (gen) → vuoto/a; (street, area) → deserto/a; (post) → vacante (fig) (threat, promise) → vano/a; (words) → vacuo/a, privo/a di significato
on an empty stomach → a stomaco vuoto

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

empty

(ˈempti) adjective

1. having nothing inside. an empty box; an empty cup.

2. unoccupied. an empty house.

3. (with of) completely without. a street quite empty of people.

4. having no practical result; (likely to be) unfulfilled. empty threats.

verb

1. to make or become empty. He emptied the jug; The cinema emptied quickly at 10.30; He emptied out his pockets.

2. to tip, pour, or fall out of a container. She emptied the milk into a pan; The rubbish emptied on to the ground.

noun

an empty bottle etc. Take the empties back to the shop.

ˈemptiness nounˌempty-ˈhanded adjective

carrying nothing. I went to collect my wages but returned empty-handed.

ˌempty-ˈheaded adjective

brainless. an empty-headed young girl.

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

empty

خالٍ, يُفْرِغُ prázdný, vyprázdnit tom, tømme entleeren, leer αδειάζω, άδειος vaciar, vacío tyhjä, tyhjentää vide, vider isprazniti, prazan svuotare, vuoto 空にする, 空の (든 것을) 비우다, 빈 leeg, legen tom, tømme opróżnić, pusty esvaziar, vazio опорожнять, пустой tom, tömma ทำให้ว่างเปล่า, ว่างเปล่า boş, boşaltmak dốc ra, trống rỗng 倒空, 空的

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

empty

a. vacío-a, desocupado-a;

v. vaciar, desocupar;

to ___ itselfvaciarse, desocuparse.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

empty

adj vacío; on an — stomach en ayunas; vt (pret & pp -tied) vaciar; to empty one’s bladder..vaciar la vejiga

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