EMPTIED Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in empty

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verb

past tense of empty

as in evacuated

to remove the contents of empty the room before starting to paint the ceiling

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Adjective

Videos online showed buses easily gliding through emptied lanes. — John Surico, Curbed, 24 July 2026 Is The Vivisectors disparaging this sort of ’emptied’ novel, or attempting to give it newfound spiritual relevance? — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026 Combine equal parts vinegar and water in a spray bottle and liberally spray the emptied interior shelves, drawers, bins, and walls. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 16 June 2026 Maybe reaching patriotic Judeo-Christian nirvana should feel like the unbearable lightness of an emptied mind. — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026 Bit by bit, Rachel moved her belongings back into her emptied home in Richmond. — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025

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Collina Strada emptied its cupboards to for its S/S ’27 collection. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2026 At twenty-four, the soprano ability gone, his coffers emptied by heroin and scammers, Lymon, in his addict’s senescence, spoke to a reporter from Ebony magazine; a year later, he would be found dead on his grandmother’s bathroom floor. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2026 Office buildings and retail corridors emptied out, while San Francisco became emblematic of the challenges facing post-pandemic cities, such as an increase in street homelessness and a surge in petty crime. — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026 The benches and bullpens emptied as the first baseman, who had homered in the first inning, took umbrage with the pitches. — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026 The refusal tier of American wealth management has emptied out. — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026 Then the offices emptied and everyone was on the same screen. — Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2026 Around 74,000 years ago, a caldera on what is now Sumatra emptied thousands of cubic kilometers of magma in about two weeks, roughly a thousand times more than Mount Pinatubo spewed out in 1991. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 9 Aug. 2026 Erasmus emptied his bench in the third quarter and the fresh power showed in the increasingly one-sided scrums. — ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for emptied

Adjective

Videos on social media published last week showed empty markets in Tehran and Karaj, with sellers complaining that their fresh produce is not being bought.

— Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
Over a four-hour span, workers helped empty cars of a vast list of items that included televisions, computers, printers and cables along with household items including electric toothbrushes, fryers, hair dryers, holiday lights and more.

— David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of empty

Verb

More news Thousands were evacuated and six were hurt as the Hawk fire grew to more than 15,000 acres at the California-Nevada border.

— Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
More than a thousand people were forced to flee from a Croatian holiday resort last week, while hundreds more were evacuated from villages in western Germany and southwest France.

— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of evacuated

Adjective

Wait until the plane is fully boarded and everyone has settled into their seats before jumping into an unoccupied seat.

— Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Aug. 2026
View this post on Instagram Vargas was taken to Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center), and charged with burglary of an unoccupied structure and criminal mischief.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of unoccupied

Adjective

But much can be made more navigable for vacationing families like mine simply by taking intentional steps to consider our experiences and needs, and not only as an afterthought.

— Nicole Chung, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2026
For its part, the Westmoreland Museum of Art utilized its partnership with Art Bridges to develop the Art Maze, an interactive installation that transformed the museum’s Cantilever Galleries into a navigable labyrinth painted by local artists.

— News Desk, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of navigable

Verb

But as oil is drained from these reserves, the integrity of the caverns may be imperiled.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2026
Free mosquitofish are also available through the Butte County Mosquito and Vector Control District for ponds, troughs and other standing water that cannot be drained.

— Jessie Baltaxe, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026

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