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Emptying   /ˈɛmptiɪŋ/  /ˈɛmtiɪŋ/   Listen
Emptying

noun
1.
The act of removing the contents of something.  Synonyms: evacuation, voidance.



Empty

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.



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"Emptying" Quotes from Famous Books



... it rests. It is next swung around to the position shown in Fig. 3, and emptied of its contents by a manipulation, the reverse of that described for charging it. All these manipulations of charging and emptying require no more than half a minute on the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 • Various

... [having] a multiplicity of women, they know not anything. They drink wine more than we do, and all their happiness consists in drunken revels—[to them] a positive act of greatness; and thus all their knightly deeds consist in emptying more or fewer jars [of wine], and there is a wedding in which they empty two hundred. All their festivals consist in this. They live in all respects like men without any law who do not know God, and without any mode of worship, and unmindful that there is ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin

... radiant and impetuous genius it neither lurked nor leered; it was in no way represented by that strange and shameless figure, half Maenad, half modern courtesan, the face foreshortened, tilted back in the act of emptying a wine-cup. ...
— The Divine Fire • May Sinclair

... whereby alone its form may hit Our apprehension, channelled in the sense Which feedeth us, that we through vision dense See Gods as trees walking, or in the wind That singeth in the bents guess what's behind Its wailing music. And now the unearthly flock, Emptying every water, wood, bare rock And pasture, beset Ida, and their wings Beat o'er the forest which about her springs And makes a sea of verdure, whence she lifts Her soaring peaks to bathe them in the drifts Of cloud, and rare reveal them unto men— For Zeus there hath his dwelling, out of ken ...
— Helen Redeemed and Other Poems • Maurice Hewlett

... engaged him at six shillings a week, almost equivalent to a dollar and a half. He was appointed to one of the mills for grinding up the ingredients. This mill stood in the open air. It was of a rude, primitive, Eastern aspect, consisting of a sort of hopper, emptying into a barrel-shaped receptacle. In the barrel was a clumsy machine turned round at its axis by a great bent beam, like a well-sweep, only it was horizontal; to this beam, at its outer end, a spavined ...
— Israel Potter • Herman Melville


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