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Adjective empty has 5 senses
- empty - holding or containing nothing; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours"
Antonyms: full, afloat, awash, flooded, inundated, overflowing, air-filled, brimful, brimfull, brimming, chockablock, chock-full, chockful, choke-full, chuck-full, cram full, congested, engorged, fraught, pregnant, glutted, overfull, heavy, weighed down, instinct, replete, laden, loaded, ladened, overladen, overloaded, stuffed, swarming, untouched, untasted, well-lined, filled, riddled
- empty, hollow, vacuous - devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments"
Antonym: meaningful (indirect, via meaningless)
- empty - having nothing inside; "an empty sphere"
Antonym: solid (indirect, via hollow)
- empty, empty-bellied - needing nourishment; "after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"; "empty-bellied children"
Antonym: thirsty (indirect, via hungry)
- empty - emptied of emotion; "after the violent argument he felt empty"
Antonym: undrained (indirect, via drained)
Noun empty has 1 sense
- empty - a container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store"
--1 is a kind of container
Verb empty has 5 senses
- empty - make void or empty of contents; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building"
--1 is one way to change, alter, modify
Antonyms: fill, fill up, make full
Sample sentence:
They empty the sink of water
- empty, discharge - become empty or void of its content; "The room emptied"
--2 is one way to change state, turn
Antonyms: fill, fill up
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- vacate, empty, abandon - leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight"
--3 is one way to leave, go forth, go away
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- empty - remove; "Empty the water"
--4 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Sample sentence:
They empty the water from the sink
- evacuate, void, empty - excrete or discharge from the body
--5 is one way to excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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