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emptied

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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
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
  • After coming up empty all night, the Angels finally broke the scoreless tie in the eighth.
    Kyle Glaser, Oc Register, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The luxury pods — complete with lie-flat beds and sliding privacy doors — could be entirely off-limits when departure day rolls around, sitting completely empty at 35,000 feet.
    Edward Russell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • In May 2025, a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down the mountainside in the nearby Loetschental valley, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of Blatten, which had been evacuated earlier as a precaution.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Thousands were evacuated, with many sheltering in tents outdoors and afraid to return to their homes due to fears of aftershocks.
    Reuters, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The pedestrian was hit by an SUV driver (doing 35mph in the 30mph zone, not uncommon speeding for Texas) and his body thrown over 30 feet into the oncoming lane, where an unoccupied Waymo robotaxi was traveling.
    Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The Minnetonka Police Department says an officer's unoccupied vehicle hit and injured a burglary suspect Monday morning near George Floyd Square in south Minneapolis.
    Stephen Swanson, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • But with Paramount having cleared the deal in regulators around the world, the urgency to resolve the lawsuit only grows stronger by the day, and in its statement Friday, the company continued to ramp up public pressure to get the AGs to the table.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The bill cleared the Senate Appropriations Committee on a 5-1 vote, and next heads to the Senate floor.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Volkanovski recently regained the vacant title and successfully defended it in February.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Either Melissa Hernandez or Aisha Wahab will fill Eric Swalwell’s vacant seat as California’s 14th District representative.
    Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Legacy databases are notoriously fragmented, proprietary data is rarely cleaned or standardized, and cybersecurity protocols surrounding corporate intellectual property remain a massive liability.
    Ivan Illan, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The coffin was covered with mud, and, before bringing it inside his house, Luwi cleaned it off with a bucket of water and a sponge.
    Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • Which Power 4 teams have the most (or least) navigable schedules?
    Jason Kirk, New York Times, 24 July 2026
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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“Emptied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emptied. Accessed 21 Aug. 2026.

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