| empty | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. empty | a container that has been emptied.; "return all empties to the store" |
| ~ container | any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another). |
| v. (change) | 2. empty | make void or empty of contents.; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ bail | empty (a vessel) by bailing. |
| ~ empty, discharge | become empty or void of its content.; "The room emptied" |
| ~ clean out, clear out | empty completely.; "We cleaned out all the drawers" |
| ~ bleed | drain of liquid or steam.; "bleed the radiators"; "the mechanic bled the engine" |
| ~ evacuate | empty completely.; "evacuate the bottle" |
| ~ evacuate | create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel). |
| ~ eviscerate | remove the contents of.; "eviscerate the stomach" |
| ~ void | clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something.; "The chemist voided the glass bottle"; "The concert hall was voided of the audience" |
| ~ clear | remove the occupants of.; "Clear the building" |
| ~ clear | rid of instructions or data.; "clear a memory buffer" |
| ~ exhaust | use up the whole supply of.; "We have exhausted the food supplies" |
| ~ knock out | empty (as of tobacco) by knocking out.; "knocked out a pipe" |
| ~ drain | empty of liquid; drain the liquid from.; "We drained the oil tank" |
| ~ core out, hollow out, hollow | remove the interior of.; "hollow out a tree trunk" |
| ~ gut | empty completely; destroy the inside of.; "Gut the building" |
| v. (change) | 3. discharge, empty | become empty or void of its content.; "The room emptied" |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| ~ flow away, flow off | flow off or away gradually.; "The water flowed off from the pipe" |
| v. (motion) | 4. abandon, empty, vacate | leave behind empty; move out of.; "You must vacate your office by tonight" |
| ~ go forth, leave, go away | go away from a place.; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight" |
| v. (contact) | 5. empty | remove.; "Empty the water" |
| ~ remove, take away, withdraw, take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| ~ unlade, offload, unload | take the load off (a container or vehicle).; "unload the truck"; "offload the van" |
| v. (body) | 6. empty, evacuate, void | excrete or discharge from the body. |
| ~ egest, excrete, eliminate, pass | eliminate from the body.; "Pass a kidney stone" |
| ~ suction | empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction.; "suction the uterus in an abortion" |
| adj. | 7. empty | holding or containing nothing.; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours" |
| ~ stripped, bare | having everything extraneous removed including contents.; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare" |
| ~ blank, white, clean | (of a surface) not written or printed on.; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" |
| ~ empty-handed | carrying nothing in the hands. |
| ~ glazed, glassy | (used of eyes) lacking liveliness.; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom" |
| ~ lifeless | destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings.; "after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly" |
| ~ looted, pillaged, plundered, ransacked | wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value.; "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village" |
| ~ vacant | without an occupant or incumbent.; "the throne is never vacant" |
| ~ vacant | void of thought or knowledge.; "a vacant mind" |
| ~ vacuous | devoid of matter.; "a vacuous space" |
| ~ void | containing nothing.; "the earth was without form, and void" |
| adj. | 8. empty, hollow, vacuous | devoid of significance or point.; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments" |
| ~ meaningless, nonmeaningful | having no meaning or direction or purpose.; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation" |
| adj. | 9. empty, empty-bellied | needing nourishment.; "after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"; "empty-bellied children" |
| ~ hungry | feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food.; "a world full of hungry people" |
| adj. | 10. empty | emptied of emotion.; "after the violent argument he felt empty" |
| ~ drained | emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid).; "a drained marsh"; "a drained tank"; "a drained and apathetic old man...not caring any longer about anything" |
| void | | |
| n. (state) | 1. nihility, nothingness, nullity, void | the state of nonexistence. |
| ~ nonentity, nonexistence | the state of not existing. |
| ~ thin air | nowhere to be found in a giant void.; "it vanished into thin air" |
| n. (shape) | 2. emptiness, vacancy, vacuum, void | an empty area or space.; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum" |
| ~ space | an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things).; "the architect left space in front of the building"; "they stopped at an open space in the jungle"; "the space between his teeth" |
| v. (social) | 3. annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, quash, void | declare invalid.; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea" |
| ~ strike down, cancel | declare null and void; make ineffective.; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law" |
| ~ break | invalidate by judicial action.; "The will was broken" |
| ~ stet | printing: cancel, as of a correction or deletion. |
| v. (change) | 4. void | clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something.; "The chemist voided the glass bottle"; "The concert hall was voided of the audience" |
| ~ empty | make void or empty of contents.; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building" |
| v. (change) | 5. invalidate, vitiate, void | take away the legal force of or render ineffective.; "invalidate a contract" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| adj. | 6. null, void | lacking any legal or binding force.; "null and void" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| ~ invalid | having no cogency or legal force.; "invalid reasoning"; "an invalid driver's license" |
| adj. | 7. void | containing nothing.; "the earth was without form, and void" |
| ~ empty | holding or containing nothing.; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours" |
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