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Empty   /ˈɛmpti/  /ˈɛmti/   Listen
Empty

adjective
(compar. emptier; superl. emptiest)
1.
Holding or containing nothing.  "An empty room" , "Full of empty seats" , "Empty hours"  Antonym: full.
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"  Antonym: fill.
2.
Become empty or void of its content.  Synonym: discharge.  Antonym: fill.
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



... 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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