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emp⋅ty

  [emp-tee] adjective, -ti⋅er, -ti⋅est, verb, -tied, -ty⋅ing, noun, plural -ties.
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–adjective
1. containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
2. vacant; unoccupied: an empty house.
3. without cargo or load: an empty wagon.
4. destitute of people or human activity: We walked along the empty streets of the city at night.
5. destitute of some quality or qualities; devoid (usually fol. by of): Theirs is a life now empty of happiness.
6. without force, effect, or significance; hollow; meaningless: empty compliments; empty pleasures.
7. not employed in useful activity or work; idle: empty summer days.
8. Mathematics. (of a set) containing no elements; null; void.
9. hungry: I'm feeling rather empty—let's have lunch.
10. without knowledge or sense; frivolous; foolish: an empty head.
11. completely spent of emotion: The experience had left him with an empty heart.
–verb (used with object)
12. to make empty; deprive of contents; discharge the contents of: to empty a bucket.
13. to discharge (contents): to empty the water out of a bucket.
–verb (used without object)
14. to become empty: The room emptied rapidly after the lecture.
15. to discharge contents, as a river: The river empties into the sea.
–noun
16. Informal. something that is empty, as a box, bottle, or can: Throw the empties into the waste bin.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME (with intrusive -p-); OE ǣmettig vacant (ǣmett(a) leisure (ǣ- a- 3 + Gmc *mōtithō accommodation; cf. must 1 , meet 1 ) + -ig -y 1 )

Related forms:
emp⋅ti⋅a⋅ble, adjective
emp⋅ti⋅er, noun
emp⋅ti⋅ly, adverb
emp⋅ti⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. vacuous. Empty, vacant, blank, void denote absence of content or contents. Empty means without appropriate or accustomed contents: an empty refrigerator. Vacant is usually applied to that which is temporarily unoccupied: a vacant chair; three vacant apartments. Blank applies to surfaces free from any marks or lacking appropriate markings, openings, etc.: blank paper; a blank wall. Void emphasizes completely unfilled space with vague, unspecified, or no boundaries: void and without form. 6. delusive, vain. 12. unload, unburden.

Antonyms:
1. full.
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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empty

  1. n.
    an empty beer or liquor bottle. : Whose empties are these, and how many are there?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

empty 
O.E. æmettig "at leisure, not occupied, unmarried," from æmetta "leisure," from æ "not" + -metta, from motan "to have" (see might). The -p- is a euphonic insertion. Sense evolution from "at leisure" to "empty" is paralleled in several languages, cf. Mod.Gk. adeios "empty," originally "freedom from fear," from deios "fear." "The adj. adeios must have been applied first to persons who enjoyed freedom from duties, leisure, and so were unoccupied, whence it was extended to objects that were unoccupied" [Buck]. The adj. also became the v. in 16c., replacing M.E. empten, from O.E. geæmtigian. Figurative sense of empty-nester first attested 1987. Empty-handed attested from 1613.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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