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Definition of emptying : 1. of Empty.
2. The act of making empty.
3. The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast.

Synonyms:

excreting, evacuation, voidance, excretion, elimination

drying, desiccating, vaporizing, sucking dry, stanching, catheterizing, mopping, blotting, draining, evaporating, withering, pumping out, parching, dehumidifying, wringing out, swabbing, wiping, dehydrating

omitting, evacuating, vacating, voiding, departing, leaving, abstracting, absenting

disappearing, annihilating, nullifying, disintegrating

enervating, exhausting, dissipating, debilitating, fatiguing, tapping, sapping

Usage examples:

• Four useful lives are emptying the best of their strength, ability and love into years of service that you may know a poor, low- grade, selfish, physical comfort. - "Our Nervous Friends Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness", Robert S. Carroll.
• The amount of labour required is slight, only that represented by filling the sticks with wet yarn and emptying the dried yarn. - "The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics", Franklin Beech.
• Our carriage, too, was emptying. - "My Little Sister", Elizabeth Robins.