Definitions for empties

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empties emp·ty

Spelling: [emp-tee]

IPA: /ˈɛmp ti/

Empties is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in empties (eeimpst).

Definitions for empties

noun

1. Informal. something that is empty, as a box, bottle, or can:

adjective

1. containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents:
2. vacant; unoccupied:
3. without cargo or load:
4. destitute of people or human activity:
5. destitute of some quality or qualities; devoid (usually followed by of):
6. without force, effect, or significance; hollow; meaningless:
7. not employed in useful activity or work; idle:
8. Mathematics. (of a set) containing no elements; null; void.
9. hungry:
10. without knowledge or sense; frivolous; foolish:
11. completely spent of emotion:

verb (used with object)

1. to make empty; deprive of contents; discharge the contents of:
2. to discharge (contents):

verb (used without object)

1. to become empty:
2. to discharge contents, as a river:

Origin of empties

before 900; Middle English (with intrusive -p-); Old English ǣmettig vacant (ǣmett(a) leisure (ǣ- a-³ + Germanic *mōtithō accommodation; cf. Examples for empties

If they are in fact linked to North Korea, the threat may not be as empty as people think.

It was a large dry cellar, empty save for the old packing-case.

The JMG office that just a few days  ago received victims of human rights abuse is now empty,  covered in black  ash.

Man followed their example and searched until he found an empty grotto.

The roads are empty, the fields are deserted, the houses of entertainment are closed.

He defied the atheism of communism and the empty religious practices of Putinism.

"As empty as an English squire, coz," cried the first speaker.

Although he ate little, the dining-room was empty when he finished.

Otherwise, we will be but celebrating an empty holiday, missing its true meaning altogether.

On Thursday, Russian bloggers published pictures of empty shelves in stores that once sold electric goods.