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1. Holding or containing nothing
   "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours"
    
2. Devoid of significance or force
   "empty promises";
   - hollow, vacuous
    
3. Needing nourishment
   "after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"; "empty-bellied children";
   - empty-bellied
    
4. Emptied of emotion
   "after the violent argument he felt empty"
    
5. Completely wanting or lacking
   "writing empty of insight";
   - barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent

1. Make void or empty of contents
   "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building"
    
2. Become empty or void of its content
   "The room emptied";
   - discharge
    
3. Leave behind empty; move out of
   "You must empty your office by tonight";
   - vacate, abandon
    
4. Remove the contents of a container
   "Empty the water"
    
5. Excrete or discharge from the body
   - evacuate, void

1. A container that has been emptied
   "return all empties to the store"

Derived forms: empties, emptying, emptiest, emptier, emptied

See also: bare, blank, clean, drained, empty-handed, fullness, fulness, glassy, glazed, hungry, lifeless, looted, meaningless, nonexistent, nonmeaningful, pillaged, plundered, ransacked, stripped, vacant, vacuous, void, white

Type of: alter, change, change state, container, egest, eliminate, excrete, go away, go forth, leave, modify, off [informal], pass, remove, take, take away, turn, withdraw

Antonym: fill up, full

Encyclopedia: Empty