empty
a container that has been emptied
- return all empties to the store
• Hypernyms:
container
1. make void or empty of contents (Freq. 4)
- Empty the box
- The alarm emptied the building
• Ant:
fill
• Derivationally related forms:
emptying
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
bail, clean out, clear out, bleed, evacuate,
eviscerate, void, clear, exhaust, knock out, drain,
hollow, hollow out, core out, gut
• Cause:
discharge
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- They empty the sink of water
2. become empty or void of its content (Freq. 3)
- The room emptied
• Syn:
discharge
• Ant:
fill
• Hypernyms:
change state, turn
• Hyponyms:
flow away, flow off
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
3. leave behind empty;
move out of (Freq. 2)
- You must vacate your office by tonight
• Syn:
vacate, abandon
• Derivationally related forms:
vacant (for: vacate)
• Hypernyms:
leave, go forth, go away
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
4. remove (Freq. 1)
- Empty the water
• Derivationally related forms:
emptying
• Hypernyms:
remove, take, take away, withdraw
• Hyponyms:
unload, unlade, offload
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
- They empty the water from the sink
5. excrete or discharge from the body
• Syn:
evacuate, void
• Derivationally related forms:
voider (for: void), voiding (for: void), voidance (for: void), evacuant (for: evacuate), evacuation (for: evacuate)
• Hypernyms:
excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
• Hyponyms:
suction
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
1. holding or containing nothing (Freq. 30)
- an empty glass
- an empty room
- full of empty seats
- empty hours
• Ant:
full
• Similar to:
bare, stripped, blank, clean, white,
empty-handed, glassy, glazed, lifeless, looted, pillaged,
plundered, ransacked, vacant, vacuous, void
• Derivationally related forms:
emptiness
• Attrubites:
fullness
2. devoid of significance or point (Freq. 6)
- empty promises
- a hollow victory
- vacuous comments
• Syn:
hollow, vacuous
• Similar to:
meaningless, nonmeaningful
• Derivationally related forms:
vacuity (for: vacuous), hollowness (for: hollow), emptiness
3. needing nourishment
- after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime
- empty-bellied children
• Syn:
empty-bellied
• Similar to:
hungry
• Derivationally related forms:
emptiness
4. emptied of emotion
- after the violent argument he felt empty
• Similar to:
drained
• Derivationally related forms:
emptiness
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