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- pronunciation:
- emp
ti
- parts of speech:
- adjective, verb
- features:
- Word History, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| inflections: |
emptier, emptiest |
| definition 1: |
When something is empty, there is nothing inside it.
Every morning, the cat will stand next to her empty food bowl and meow at us until we feed her.Jade went to get a cookie from the jar, but then she saw that the jar was empty.
- synonyms:
- bare, vacant
- antonyms:
- full
- similar words:
- blank, clear, hollow
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| definition 2: |
When your house is empty, it means that people are away, or that people are not using the house.
The house will be empty while we are on vacation.- synonyms:
- vacant
- antonyms:
- occupied
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| definition 3: |
When someone's life feels empty, it means that they feel no interest in life, or they feel that life has no meaning.
Aiden's grandfather felt as though his life was empty after his wife passed away.- similar words:
- barren, trivial, useless, vacant
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| related words: |
shallow, wild |
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
empties, emptying, emptied |
| definition 1: |
When you empty something, it means that you take out or pour out everything that is inside it.
We needed to empty the back seat of the car so my friends and I could all sit together.- synonyms:
- unload
- antonyms:
- fill
- similar words:
- drain, dump, exhaust
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| definition 2: |
When you empty a bag of peanuts into a bowl, it means that you pour the peanuts from the bag into the bowl.
Tyson emptied a bag of popcorn into a bowl so he could share it with his friends.The factory used to empty chemical waste into the river, but that is not allowed anymore.- synonyms:
- move, transfer
- similar words:
- take
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| definition 3: |
When a room empties, it becomes empty as people leave it.
The house slowly emptied as the party began to come to an end.- antonyms:
- fill
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| definition 4: |
When a river empties into an ocean, it means that the river flows or pours into the ocean.
The Mississippi River flows from north to south and empties into the Gulf of Mexico.- similar words:
- drain, evacuate, exhaust
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| related words: |
clear, evacuate, flush, remove, run |
| derivations: |
emptily (adv.), emptiness (n.) |
Empty is from aemetig, an Old English word that means "rest" or "leisure." When truly at rest, you are emptied of worry or concern.
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