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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
Verb
His first show, which took place weeks after the towers fell, was made possible in part because the city’s factories emptied out, allowing his designs to be made. Irina Aleksander, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024 Politicians everywhere have emptied words like hope and unity of any meaning. Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024 Actually, the Roman stone was only discovered because the storage room that held these paintings was emptied out in preparation for the show. Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 29 Nov. 2024 Instead of loud music and joyous laughter, the team’s locker room was mostly silent as players emptied their lockers, got dressed and shuffled out as quickly as possible. Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024 The Dahiya, once a bustling cluster of neighborhoods that are home to hundreds of thousands of people, has been almost entirely emptied in recent weeks because of intense airstrikes. Euan Ward, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024 Notre Dame has emptied its bench in each of the past six games. Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024 The room had mostly emptied out. Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2024 To keep the formula fresh, the serum is stored in biodegradable green capsules that can be composted or dissolved in hot water once emptied. Colleen Sullivan, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emptied
Adjective
  • Elsewhere, many parts of the capital were empty and shops were closed.
    ABDULRAHMAN SHAHEEN and ABBY SEWELL, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2024
  • But Mara may not need any coaxing to make sweeping change if the stadium is empty on Sunday and the Giants get blown out by Bergen Catholic-product Darren Rizzi, Derek Carr and Alvin Kamara.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 8 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Prior to the bust, two daycare facilities on the first and third floors of the building were evacuated, sources said.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The singer Cher evacuated to a hotel on Monday night along with her pets, according to her publicist, who gave no other details.
    Corina Knoll, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • In most cases, the memo said, home alarm systems were not activated and most of the homes were unoccupied at the time.
    Sara Ruberg, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Never go to sleep with a space heater on, and never leave one turned on in an unoccupied room.
    Jordan Smith, Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • However, due to an unseasonably warm year with no snow, the town is vacant and tourists have all chosen other destinations.
    Keith Langston, People.com, 14 Dec. 2024
  • With a priceless historic apartment in her family’s possession that was finally vacant after decades, the decision was clear.
    Linne Halpern, Architectural Digest, 12 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Chase vacated the building in 2021 for its new campus in Tempe, leaving Arizona's tallest building empty.
    Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In an April 2024 appeal hearing, a judge granted Julie's appeal and vacated her seven-year sentence in June due to insufficient evidence while Todd's sentence was upheld.
    Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The post shows a variety of two-dimensional images next to the navigable 3D spaces produced from them, which visitors can tour using their keyboards. World Labs also showed the ability to shift focus and add other effects.
    Ina Fried, Axios, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Texas has used the shallowness of the river section to make its point that the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass is not navigable as a trade thoroughfare and therefore not under the auspices of the Rivers and Harbors Act.
    John C. Moritz, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Aug. 2024

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“Emptied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emptied. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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