empty
Adjective
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tells us about: fullness - the condition of being filled to capacitysimilar to:
- bare, stripped - having everything extraneous removed including contents
- blank, clean, white - (of a surface) not written or printed on
- empty-handed - carrying nothing in the hands
- glassy, glazed - (used of eyes) lacking liveliness
- lifeless - destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings
- looted, pillaged, plundered, ransacked - wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value
- vacant - without an occupant or incumbent
- vacant - void of intelligence or thought
- vacuous - devoid of matter
- void - containing nothing
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similar to: meaningless, nonmeaningful - having no meaning or direction or purpose
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similar to: hungry - feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat foodsame as: empty-bellied
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similar to: drained - emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid)
Noun
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is a type of: container - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)
Verb
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subtypes:
- bail - empty (a vessel) by bailing
- clean out, clear out - empty completely
- bleed - drain of liquid or steam
- evacuate - empty completely
- evacuate - create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)
- eviscerate - remove the contents of
- void - clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something
- clear - remove the occupants of
- clear - rid of instructions or data
- exhaust - use up the whole supply of
- knock out - empty (as of tobacco) by knocking out
- drain - empty of liquid; drain the liquid from
- core out, hollow, hollow out - remove the interior of
- gut - empty completely; destroy the inside of
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is a type of: change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or actionsame as: discharge
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subtypes: suction - empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction
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