To deprive of contents; remove, pour, or draw out the contents from; make vacant: with of before the thing removed: as, to empty a well or a cistern; to empty a pitcher or a purse; to empty a house of its occupants.
To draw out, pour out, or otherwise remove or discharge, as the contents of a vessel: commonly with out: as, to empty out the water from a pitcher.
To discharge; pour out continuously or in a steady course: as, a river empties itself or its waters into the ocean. [A strained use, which it is preferable to avoid, since a river is not emptied by its flow into the ocean.]
To lay waste; make destitute or desolate.
To become empty.
To pour out or discharge its contents, as a river into the ocean.
Containing nothing, or nothing but air; void of its usual or of appropriate contents; vacant; unoccupied: said of any inclosure or allotted space: as, an empty house or room; an empty chest or purse; an empty chair or saddle.
Void; devoid; destitute of some essential quality or component.
Destitute of force, effect, significance, or value; without valuable content; meaningless: as, empty words; empty compliments.
Destitute of knowledge or sense; ignorant: as, an empty coxcomb.
Forlorn from destitution or deprivation; desolate; deserted.
Wanting substance or solidity; lacking reality; unsubstantial; unsatisfactory: as, empty air; empty dreams; empty pleasures.
Not burdened; not bearing a burden or a rider: as, an empty horse.
Not supplied; without provision.
Wanting food; fasting; hungry.
Bearing no fruit; without useful product.
Producing no effect or result; ineffectual.
Synonyms Void, etc. (see vacant); unoccupied, bare, unfurnished.
Weak, silly, senseless.
Unsatisfying, vain, hollow.
noun.
An empty vessel or other receptacle, as a box or sack, packing-case, etc.; an empty vehicle, as a cab, freightcar, etc.: as, returned empties.