Definition of Empty

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Definition of Empty

Empty

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.

Free; clear; devoid; -- often with of.

Having nothing to carry; unburdened.

Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; -- said of language; as, empty words, or threats.

Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc.

Producing nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine.

Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb.

Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams.

An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, "special rates for empties."

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.

To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean.

To become empty.

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Empty Quotations

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
Jimi Hendrix

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Ernest Hemingway

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Saint Augustine

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
Lord Byron

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
Meister Eckhart

Empty Translations

empty in Afrikaans is pap
empty in Dutch is hol, ledig, lens, loos, leeg
empty in French is videz, vident, vidanger, vider, vidons, vide
empty in German is ausleeren
empty in Italian is vuotare, vuoto, evacuare
empty in Latin is inanis, vacuus
empty in Norwegian is tom

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