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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
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 Maybe your apartment dumpster hasn’t been emptied in days, or maybe a neighbor keeps tossing bags into your garbage can without asking. — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Aug. 2026 One kind of firework sounds as though the sky just emptied its digital trash. — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026 During that time, the silent microscopic enemy emptied the streets, turning them into a film set from which the cameras had fled. — Literary Hub, 28 July 2026 More recently, gang violence has emptied out entire neighborhoods as more Haitians have fled both within the country and abroad to Canada and the United States. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emptied
  1. empty
  2. evacuated
  3. unoccupied
  4. cleared
  5. vacant
  6. cleaned
  7. navigable
  8. drained
Adjective
  • All three terminals at Kharg have been empty for extended periods, according to shipping analysts at Windward.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, empty-nest boomers sit on a disproportionate share of the family-size homes that millennial parents need but cannot find or afford.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of empty
Verb
  • Typhoon Dolphin, the most powerful cyclone to hit China this year, made landfall in the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang on Sunday, with more than one million people evacuated.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
  • When the trembling decreased, the 27-year-old mother took the stairs seven stories down with her young child in her arms and evacuated the building.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of evacuated
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
Definition of unoccupied
Verb
  • Stagnant smoke dropped air quality this week in the Pacific Northwest until winds Thursday and Friday cleared the worst of it from western locations, like Seattle and Portland, Oregon.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Once the ground is cleared and loosened, work in a layer of topsoil, compost, or fertilizer before laying down seed.
    — Amanda Tust, Architectural Digest, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of cleared
Adjective
  • Some may instead house relatives or friends, be rented seasonally or remain vacant.
    — Teresa Liu, Daily News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • This is particularly true since the vehicle was vacant and there was nobody behind it at the light.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of vacant
Verb
  • The company said the hot tub is completely drained, cleaned and refilled with fresh water in between sessions.
    — Brandon Truitt, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The bathroom gets cleaned every day; the keyboard everyone shares does not.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of cleaned
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
Definition of navigable
Verb
  • The company said the hot tub is completely drained, cleaned and refilled with fresh water in between sessions.
    — Brandon Truitt, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • In January, Di Cenzo had approximately two liters of fluid drained from her abdomen on three separate occasions.
    — Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of drained

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