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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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Recent Examples of emptied
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
Verb
Gottlieb emptied her bench to begin the fourth quarter with the Trojans up by a wide margin. — Gabriel Duarte, Oc Register, 11 Nov. 2026 Two cash registers inside had been emptied prior to the store closing, police said. — Dennis Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026 Since reunification, its young people (above all, its young women) have left for western Germany, its towns have emptied and aged, and its voters have turned to the parties at both extremes of the political spectrum. — Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2026 Eventually, the place emptied out, and the trio took their leave to the hazy groove of a Khruangbin track. — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026 But by then, the lawn had emptied out as people drifted home, Jacob Hawk among them. — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 6 Nov. 2026 To fill the three-act showcase, tracing Diana’s life from childhood up to her untimely death in 1997, Plant has emptied out her entire collection. — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026 There is no evidence that foreign countries intentionally emptied prisons or mental institutions and sent people to the United States. — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026 After the pilots emptied the bucket, the helicopter swung to the left and then rapidly descended, the report states. — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emptied
  1. empty
  2. evacuated
  3. unoccupied
  4. cleared
  5. vacant
  6. cleaned
  7. navigable
  8. drained
Adjective
  • Crosby added a late empty-net goal, diving face-first on the ice to tip it home.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Quinn Sullivan started the sequence with a cross in front of goal that Indiana Vassilev settled and pulled goalkeeper William Yarbrough out of his area to find Cavan Sullivan for a close-range finish into an empty net.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of empty
Verb
  • All employees safely evacuated the warehouse, and no injuries were reported.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • About 77 mobile homes near the wreckage were evacuated, with county officials unable to say when residents can return as investigators examine the scene.
    — David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of evacuated
Adjective
  • The victim crashed into an unoccupied vehicle and was found by officers near the 2400 block of Springs Road.
    — Jose Fabian, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Plant in the past has bid against, and beat, the Historic Royal Palaces charity in London, who alongside managing unoccupied royal palaces in the UK also conserve and display royal ceremonial dress.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of unoccupied
Verb
  • Testing the naval configuration The program has already cleared an earlier launch milestone.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Watson returned to the game after being cleared by an unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant.
    — Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of cleared
Adjective
  • Bass also attracted criticism over her handling of city spending — giving a series of raises to the workforce and then encountering a $1-billion shortfall, which led to the elimination of more than 1,500 vacant city jobs.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
  • One is to raise the rates at which wealthier homesteads, rentals, commercial properties and vacant land are taxed.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of vacant
Verb
  • The apartments Svetlana cleaned belonged to people in their thirties who didn’t seem to leave the house much—there was trash from Amazon and Uber Eats everywhere.
    — Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Some blankets can only be spot-cleaned, while others have removable, washable covers that can be laundered with everything else.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of cleaned
Adjective
  • Mousavi also showcased research into constructing a navigable 4D scene from a single-camera recording.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Florsheim’s argument has centered on Wisconsin’s Public Trust Doctrine, which protects public rights in navigable waters and the land beneath them.
    — Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of navigable
Verb
  • My arms seemed suddenly drained of all strength and took on that sickly spaghettilike feeling.
    — ANGUS CAMERON, Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2026
  • The rich muck soils south of Lake Okeechobee have been gradually wasting away since Floridians drained the Everglades and began farming and tilling the land.
    — Nicolas Rivero, Sun Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of drained

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“Emptied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emptied. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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