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empty English

Meaning empty meaning

What does empty mean?
Definitions in simple English

empty Adjective

— If something is empty, it has nothing inside it. Hey! You finished my beer. It's empty.

empty Verb

— If you empty something, you remove everything in that item. I will empty the bins.

empty

— adjective holding or containing nothing an empty glass an empty room full of empty seats empty hours — adjective (= hollow, vacuous) devoid of significance or point empty promises a hollow victory vacuous comments — verb make void or empty of contents Empty the box The alarm emptied the building — verb become empty or void of its content The room emptied — verb (= vacate) leave behind empty; move out of You must vacate your office by tonight — verb remove Empty the water — adjective emptied of emotion after the violent argument he felt empty — adjective (= empty-bellied) needing nourishment after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime empty-bellied children — noun a container that has been emptied return all empties to the store — verb (= evacuate) excrete or discharge from the body

Synonyms empty synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as empty?

empty English » English

hollow void vacant blank unoccupied vain evacuate deserted bare clear drain discharge vacate open free become empty use up unload uninhabited pour out naked meaningless emptied useless spill alone abandoned vacuous nothing make empty hungry exhaust desolate consume worthless unsubstantial unpack unburden null inane idle flow empty-bellied dump deplete clear out abandon wide vague unfilled

Topics empty topics

What do people use empty to talk about?
States Quantity Full

Empty
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Pour
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Flow
Physical actions Move something Take somewhere

Take something from somewhere
Person Body Internal organs

Stomach
Language and thought Think Mind

Think about
Physical actions Have, be with

Not have

Conjugation empty conjugation

How do you conjugate empty?

empty · verb

Examples empty examples

How do I use empty in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I want a few empty glasses.
Find an empty bottle and fill it with water.
I found the glass empty.
Your account is empty.
Life is not an empty dream.
We found all the boxes empty.
My life would have been completely empty without you.
Tom's wallet is almost empty.
Tom doesn't like working on an empty stomach.
The street is empty.
I don't like working on an empty stomach.
The cup is empty.
Tom's bank account is empty.
Choose the correct answer that fills the empty space.
My life is empty without him.
My life would be completely empty without you.
Drinking on an empty stomach is bad for your health.
I found the box empty.
The bus was empty except for one elderly woman.
I saw at a glance that the empty house was badly in need of repair.
I need to put some gas in the car, as it's almost empty.
Please replace the empty ink jet cartridge in the printer.
You should especially not drink on an empty stomach.
The room has been empty for a long time.
I found the room empty.
Empty cans were scattered about the place.
The can is empty.

Movie subtitles

First of all, there's a lot of empty space out there.
That young master didn't look like talking an empty word.
It was completely empty?
Empty your truck onto the street.
Well, it was someone who knew about the empty coffin that Declan would vacate, the person who was in on it. Janelle knew.
The rubbish bin's empty.
Evan Whitestone's Santa sack was full of boxes, big, small, tiny, but all of them empty.
Why would you be bothered to utter empty threats?
Entire villages found empty at dawn, and then. The people are found dead in the forest.
Abandoned quarries, empty houses, Fandor knew practically all the hide-outs of the underworld in the Paris suburbs.
The news that the sharing out of the loot was going to take place in the empty house spread quickly among the gangsters.
The tureen is not empty.
Even though Saladin's coffers were empty, He continued to feed the poor.
No lunch -- and as empty as a punctured tire.
Empty your bag.
The tobacco pouch is empty.
I didn't want to go back to an empty room without my husband, so I walked around.
The place is half empty!
As you can see, my hand is empty.
Empty.
And as for me, I'm going back in the closet where men are empty overcoats.
How do you expect me to bring a curtain down on an empty stomach?
Larry, give me one of those empty jars.
Empty shirt.
A friend of mine has left town and his apartment is empty.
That theater, half empty.
If the house is empty again..
Hey, hey, do you know that suitcase is empty? That's all right.
Oh, you will, eh? Well, you'll empty it before I go out.
But if we could find a nice little empty bungalow just for me and you. where we could bill and cow.
Germany'll be empty pretty soon.
Empty beer bottles, empty whiskey bottles.
Empty wine bottles Cigarette and cigar butts.
If the house is empty again.. I don't know.
One purse, empty.
I can't bear those empty staring eyes.

News and current affairs

We've heard that empty promise before.
Because banks service their depositors on a first-come-first-served basis, those who wait risk being left empty-handed, because the bank may be forced to liquidate its long term-assets at a loss and run out of resources.
WASHINGTON, DC - After 16 days of closed museums, half-empty federal buildings, unnaturally quiet streets, and tens of thousands of workers left in existential limbo, the lights are back on in Washington.
The captured carbon is then pumped into underground storage sites such as empty oil fields and other suitable locations.
And the African leaders already know that this is not an empty boast.
Developing countries must not be fooled by the empty economic arguments that paralyzed control efforts in the West for so long.
Or what if, after a few years, the whole thing devolves into an empty exercise in political correctness?
Instead, Syria's rulers are offering inducements to ensure that key constituencies remain in line - laptops for teachers, subsidies for public-sector workers, and empty reformist rhetoric.
But Lepper is no empty windbag like McCarthy.
Along with its empty threats of interest rate hikes, there is a real danger the ECB will be labeled the central bank that barks but doesn't bite (animal behaviorists know that barking and biting are substitutes, not complements).
It does not take long for voters to discover that the promises of populists were empty.
If and when the natural resource generating the windfall wealth (in this case, oil and gas) disappears, the economy is left with too few competitive industries and too many empty bookstore-cafes. Painful restructuring is sure to follow.
The Europeans who conquered and colonized the Americas after 1492 did not find vast empty lands, as they sometimes proclaimed, but rather lands populated by communities dating back thousands of years.
Empty words from St. Petersburg, Brussels, or UN headquarters will not suffice, nor will a mere ceasefire, as that would simply return the area to square one.
Jubilee 2000 succeeded mostly in getting empty promises.
If our toolbox were empty, our inaction might be understandable.
Airy talk about science and manufacturing as ladders out of recession (a favorite image of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown) is just that - empty words.
After all, who wants to build offices, stores, and shopping centers in the empty ghost towns that litter the American West?
And the benefits of the 2009 Shanghai Expo were rapidly undermined by the jailing of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and the television screens around the world broadcasting scenes of an empty chair at the Oslo ceremonies.
Lenders find that the collateral (half-finished or empty houses) is worth almost nothing, resulting in huge losses in the banking system (as the US found out in 2008).
The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 may turn out to be a framework for effective regulation, or it might become another set of empty promises.
Both Duda and Kukiz complained that too many young Poles were leaving the country, and that their country was becoming an empty land of the elderly - a fact that is obvious to anyone who walks down a Polish street.
Rules without any monitoring and enforcement mechanism are merely empty rhetoric.
The promises to care for the poor and disadvantaged that are being made by all the candidates will turn out to be as empty as all the other rhetoric about justice and equality that Bolivians have heard in their long, sad history.
But there are valid reasons to view Iran's democratic glass as being half empty.
Will the world's trade ministers eventually sign a new multilateral trade agreement that reduces agricultural subsidies and industrial tariffs, or will they walk away empty-handed?
If they do not follow through on their intentions, promises, and commitments, access to information and instant communication is such that empty promises simply will no longer persuade most people.
Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.

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