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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



... one of the attendants, dismounting, rang a hall bell, whose deep sudden peal through empty vastness gave a character of profound desolation to the silence in which it was swallowed. More than once the summons was repeated, and at last a faint light gleamed upon the windows, and the door was timorously unbarred and opened. A hard-featured ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various
... watching the wagons and buggies drive up the hill. After the bell began to ring, he saw Frank Shabata ride up on horseback and tie his horse to the hitch-bar. Marie, then, was not coming. Emil turned and went into the church. Amedee's was the only empty pew, and he sat down in it. Some of Amedee's cousins were there, dressed in black and weeping. When all the pews were full, the old men and boys packed the open space at the back of the church, kneeling on the floor. There was scarcely a family in town that was not represented ...
— O Pioneers! • Willa Cather
... in Mary's bosom. She stood looking blankly round her, like one who is blind with open eyes, and saw nothing; and strained her ears like a deaf man, but heard nothing. All was silence, vacancy, an empty world about her. She sat down at her little table, with a heavy sigh. "The child can see her, but she will not come to me," ...
— Old Lady Mary - A Story of the Seen and the Unseen • Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant
... buried; two large tears rolled over the cheeks of the earnest man, and in the parsonage it was empty and still, for its sun had set for ...
— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen
... those from the character of men of judgment who did not applaud him. But he was at other times more favourable to mankind than to think them blind to the beauties of his works, and imputed the slowness of their sale to other causes; either they were published at a time when the town was empty, or when the attention of the public was engrossed by some struggle in the Parliament or some other object of general concern; or they were, by the neglect of the publisher, not diligently dispersed, or, by his avarice, not advertised with sufficient frequency. Address, or industry, or liberality ...
— Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, and Swift • Samuel Johnson


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