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devoid Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
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an empty purse; an empty jug; an empty stomach
1949, (w), (w), Part Two, Chapter 1, http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html
- (..) something in the little man's appearance suggested that he would be sufficiently attentive to his own comfort to choose the emptiest table.
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puhekieltä Containing no elements (as of a string or array), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
puhekieltä Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
c. 1594, (w), (w), Act V, Scene 2, http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=loveslabours&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl
- I shall find you empty of that fault,
1674, (w), (w), Book XI, lines 614-7, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_XI
- For that fair femal Troop thou sawst, that seemd / Of Goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay, / Yet empty of all good wherein consists / Womans domestic honour and chief praise;
Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
c. 1607, (w), (w), Act III, Scene 6, http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=timonathens&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl
- I hope it remains not unkindly with your lordship that I returned you an empty messenger.
1611, (w) of the Bible, Exodus 3:21, https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+3&version=AKJV
- And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
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empty words, or threats
1697, (w), Womans Wit'', Act V, page 190, https://archive.org/details/dramaticworksofc01cibbuoft
- (..) words are but empty thanks; my future conduct best will speak my gratitude.
Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
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empty pleasures
1713, (w), Windsor-Forest, lines 429-30, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9413/pg9413-images.html
- Ev'n I more sweetly pass my careless days, / Pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise;
Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
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empty dreams
puhekieltä Producing nothing; unfruitful; said of a plant or tree.
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an empty vine
1611, (w) of the Bible, Genesis 42:27, https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+41&version=AKJV
- (..) seven empty ears blasted with the east wind (..)
Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
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empty brains; an empty coxcomb
1599, (w), (w), Act II, Scene 7, http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=asyoulikeit&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl
- Art thou thus bolden'd, man, by thy distress? Or else a rude despiser of good manners, / That in civility thou seem'st so empty?
puhekieltä To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.
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to empty a well or a cistern
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The cinema emptied quickly after the end of the film.
Bible, Eccl. xi. 3
- The clouds (..) empty themselves upon the earth.
puhekieltä Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
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Of these the Rhine empties into the Northern ocean and the Danube into the Euxine. – Horace White's 1899 translation of Appian (2nd C.)
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Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River. – http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/nsd/xml2html.php?xml=coastpilot/files/cp8/CPB8_E38_C04_20160620_1423_WEB.xml Dixon Entrance to Ketchikan
A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.
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Put the empties out to be recycled.
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