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word empty
definition
adjective
An empty place, vehicle, or container is one that has no people or things in it.
The room was bare and empty.
...empty cans of lager.
The roads were nearly empty of traffic.
An empty gesture, threat, or relationship has no real value or meaning .
His father threatened to throw him out, but he knew it was an empty threat.
...to ensure the event is not perceived as an empty gesture.
If you describe a person's life or a period of time as empty, you mean that nothing interesting or valuable happens in it.
My life was very hectic but empty before I met him.
If you feel empty, you feel unhappy and have no energy, usually because you are very tired or have just experienced something upsetting .
I felt empty and hollow; defeated.
I feel so empty, my life just doesn't seem worth living any more.
verb
If you empty a container, or empty something out of it, you remove its contents, especially by tipping it up.
I emptied the wastepaper basket.
Empty the noodles and liquid into a serving bowl.
He emptied the contents out into the palm of his hand.
If someone empties a room or place, or if it empties, everyone that is in it goes away .
The stadium emptied at the end of the first day of athletics.
...a woman who could empty a pub full of drunks just by lifting one fist.
A river or canal that empties into a lake, river, or sea flows into it.
The Washougal empties into the Columbia River near Portland.
noun
Empties are bottles or containers which no longer have anything in them.
inflections emptieremptiestemptiesemptyingemptiedMT
cefr-level B1

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