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Empty   /ˈɛmpti/  /ˈɛmti/   Listen
adjective
Empty  adj.  (compar. emptier; superl. emptiest)  
1.
Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; said of an inclosure, or a container, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles.
2.
Free; clear; devoid; often with of. "That fair female troop... empty of all good." "I shall find you empty of that fault."
3.
Having nothing to carry; unburdened. "An empty messenger." "When ye go ye shall not go empty."
4.
Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language; as, empty words, or threats. "Words are but empty thanks."
5.
Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; said of pleasure, the world, etc. "Pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise."
6.
Producing nothing; unfruitful; said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine. "Seven empty ears blasted with the east wind."
7.
Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb. "That in civility thou seem'st so empty."
8.
Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams. Note: Empty is used as the first element in a compound; as, empty-handed, having nothing in the hands, destitute; empty-headed, having few ideas; empty-hearted, destitute of feeling.
Synonyms: See Vacant.


verb
Empty  v. t.  (past & past part. emptied; pres. part. emptying)  To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern. "The clouds... empty themselves upon the earth."


Empty  v. i.  
1.
To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean.
2.
To become empty. "The chapel empties."


noun
Empty  n.  (pl. empties)  An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, "special rates for empties."





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"Empty" Quotes from Famous Books



... theatrical curtain has really fallen and been taken up again for the night on that dull, dark vault which many of us know so well; if you will only think of the theatre or other place of entertainment as empty; if you will only think of the "float," or other gas-fittings, as extinguished; if you will only think of the people who have beguiled you of an evening's care, whose little vanities and almost childish foibles are engendered ...
— Speeches: Literary and Social • Charles Dickens
... uncanny possession of the soul of the German nation. Before 1914 none except a few initiated had ever heard of Treitschke. Since 1914 he has become a household name and a name of evil import. But to the immense majority of readers that name, however familiar and ominous, remains an empty name. Nomen flatus vocis. And even those to whom the name conveys something more definite do not trouble about its meaning. With that strange disbelief in the power of ideas which is one of our lamentable ...
— German Problems and Personalities • Charles Sarolea
... concerned about the end. The fleeting moment I enjoy; each cup Of pleasure as it comes I empty,—letting All else go on to ...
— Early Plays - Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans • Henrik Ibsen
... replied May, looking mysterious; "pull out that little drawer, and empty the powder you will find in it into the coffee-pot, which I have just scalded—that is it; now pour on a little cold water; put in this fish-sound; fill up with boiling water—there, that is enough. Now comes the third, and last stage. Set the pot on the stove, and watch it; when ...
— May Brooke • Anna H. Dorsey
... purpose, it must be fully equipped, and thoroughly competent and equal to its work. For God always adapts means to ends. Hence it can never resemble the tribunals existing in man-made churches, which can but mutter empty phrases, suggest compromises, and clothe thought in wholly ambiguous language—tribunals that dare not commit themselves to anything definite and precise. Yea, which utterly fail and break down just at the critical ...
— The Purpose of the Papacy • John S. Vaughan


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