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Definition of empty : 1. An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; - used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, special rates for empties.
2. Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; - said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles.
3. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; - said of language; as, empty words, or threats.
4. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams.
5. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb.
6. Free; clear; devoid; - often with of.
7. Having nothing to carry; unburdened.
8. Producing nothing; unfruitful; - said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine.
9. To become empty.
10. To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern.
11. To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean.
12. Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; - said of pleasure, the world, etc.

Synonyms:

waste, destitute of, glazed, emptied, mindless, stripped, innocent of, unemployed, untenanted, drop, resign, abandon, empty-handed, unfrequented, pillaged, eject, glassy, muster out, clear, depleted, quash, forsake, hungry, go off, invalidate, void of, uninhabited, empty-bellied, bereft of, drained, negative, idle, blank, set down, ransacked, unoccupied, white, leisure, hollow, bare, discharge, lifeless, inane, exculpate, barren of, desolate, fatuous, open, vain, assoil, innocent, acquit, clean, free, dispatch, exhausted, deserted, expel, unfilled, fire, unload, false, exonerate, plundered, countermand, full, otiose, release, rescind, repeal, reverse, desert, annul, insincere, empty of, futile, avoid, looted, renounce, devoid of, vitiate, overturn, complete, abandoned, stark, filled, empty-headed, destitute, asinine, deprived of, revoke, give up, put down, lift, fruitless, drop off

devoid, non-subsistent, unexisting, meaningless, barren

enervate, exhaust, dissipate, debilitate, fatigue, tap, sap

inessential, null, chimerical, unconcrete, unreal, phantasmal, impalpable, nonexistence, vacuous, ethereal, insignificance, spectral, unsubstantial, immaterial, tenuous, weightless, illusory, apparitional, intangible

disappear, annihilate, nullify, disintegrate

dry, desiccate, vaporize, suck dry, stanch, catheterize, mop, blot, drain, evaporate, wither, pump out, parch, dehumidify, wring out, swab, wipe, dehydrate

evacuate, omit, vacate, leave, depart

abstract, truant, gone, vacant, wanting, absent, away, nonexistent, out, void, no-show, lacking, omitted, departed, elsewhere, missing

Usage examples:

• All empty as the grave! - "The Rhesus of Euripedes", Euripedes.
• It was an empty car. - "The Happy Foreigner", Enid Bagnold.
• But as soon as it was empty, it at once became filled again, so all the Indians had enough to eat. - "Myths and Legends of the Great Plains", Unknown.