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Emptying   /ˈɛmptiɪŋ/  /ˈɛmtiɪŋ/   Listen
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
Emptying  n.  
1.
The act of making empty.
2.
pl. The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (U.S.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Emptying" Quotes from Famous Books



... business ended in dancing, so far well, for a sound sleep would have brought a blithe wakening, and all be tight and right again; but, alas and alackaday! the violent heat and fume of foment they were all thrown into, caused the emptying of so many ale-tankers, and the swallowing of so muckle toddy, by way of cooling and refreshing the company, that they all got as fou as the Baltic; and many ploys, that shall be nameless, were the result of a sober ceremony, whereby two douce and decent people, Mansie Wauch, ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir
... was an uneventful one and the volunteers behaved well with the exception of emptying a cask of wine which they conscientiously filled again with water. This was the property of two French passengers who spent most of their time playing cards on deck and whose amazement when they discovered that their wine bad turned into water, knew no bounds. When the volunteers arrived in Liverpool ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... knitting at her window, waiting for her son's return. I went not empty-handed, for besides my pasty, which I had saved, I had bought a loaf and a lump of cheese and a bundle of lollipops at Bideford. First presenting her with these treasures and emptying my pockets of the very small amount of cash they contained, I opened the business I had at heart. Poor Mrs Rockets burst into tears when I asked her to let her Tommy go ...
— Hurricane Hurry • W.H.G. Kingston
... the ceiling below and connected with the stoning apparatus. Recently, a flexible-arm cooler has been invented that provides full fan suction to a cooler car at all points in its track travel from the roaster to the emptying position. ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... indigo, surmounted by long rolling breakers with combs of white, all being fully fourteen miles away. To the northwest of the sand-spit upon which Chinik is built, and which cuts Golovin Bay almost in two, the Fish River is also emptying itself, as is Keechawik Creek and other smaller streams. Over all the welcome sunshine is flooded, warming the buds and roots on the ...
— A Woman who went to Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan


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