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emptied

/emp-tee/US // ˈɛmp ti //UK // (ˈɛmptɪ) //

清空了,清空,清空的,清理完毕

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
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    emp·ti·er, emp·ti·est.

    • : containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
    • : vacant; unoccupied: an empty house.
    • : without cargo or load: an empty wagon.
    • : destitute of people or human activity: We walked along the empty streets of the city at night.
    • : destitute of some quality or qualities; devoid: Theirs is a life now empty of happiness.
    • : without force, effect, or significance; hollow; meaningless: empty compliments; empty pleasures.
    • : not employed in useful activity or work; idle: empty summer days.
    • : Mathematics. containing no elements; null; void.
    • : hungry: I'm feeling rather empty—let's have lunch.
    • : without knowledge or sense; frivolous; foolish: an empty head.
    • : completely spent of emotion: The experience had left him with an empty heart.
v.有主动词 verb
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    emp·tied, emp·ty·ing.

    • : to make empty; deprive of contents; discharge the contents of: to empty a bucket.
    • : to discharge: to empty the water out of a bucket.
v.无主动词 verb
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    emp·tied, emp·ty·ing.

    • : to become empty: The room emptied rapidly after the lecture.
    • : to discharge contents, as a river: The river empties into the sea.
n.名词 noun
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    plural emp·ties.

    • : Informal. something that is empty, as a box, bottle, or can: Throw the empties into the waste bin.

Phrases

  • empty calories
  • empty nest
  • empty suit
  • glass is half full (half empty)
  • running on empty

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • While the others ordered sundaes, I emptied my pockets into the game.

  • Ibrahim Hijazi walked me through his barren house, emptied ahead of the demolition.

  • Elsewhere in Liberia, entire hospitals emptied out, patients, doctors, and nurses, all fleeing in fear of Ebola.

  • Then there is the Effie who emptied one of their bank accounts because she “liked to shop and look nice.”

  • He took another drink, looked at the glass, then emptied it.

  • And she emptied her pockets of all the letters, minus the envelopes, that Fleurette had written.

  • Joseph's brain emptied, fortunately; a man would not want to know that he was tacked to a chair, bleeding to death.

  • Taking off the lid she emptied its contents in a heap—silver and copper with one or two gold pieces intermixed—on the table.

  • In the nine prisons of Paris these horrors continued unabated till they were emptied of their victims.

  • When the guests are well emptied of theology, everyone takes his nightcap—the signal for breaking up.