Deviled and Empty
(imp.&p.p.) of Devil.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- A container that has been emptied.
- usage: "return all empties to the store"
verb
- Make void or empty of contents.
- usage: "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building"
- Become empty or void of its content.
- usage: "The room emptied"
- synonyms: discharge
- Leave behind empty; move out of.
- usage: "You must vacate your office by tonight"
- Remove.
- usage: "Empty the water"
- Excrete or discharge from the body.
adjective
- Holding or containing nothing.
- usage: "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours"
- Devoid of significance or point.
- usage: "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments"
- Needing nourishment.
- usage: "after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"; "empty-bellied children"
- synonyms: empty-bellied
- Emptied of emotion.
- usage: "after the violent argument he felt empty"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (superl.) Having nothing to carry; unburdened.
- (superl.) Destitute of reality or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams.
- (v.i.) To become empty.
- (n.) An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, especially in transportation of freight; as, "special rates for empties.".
- (superl.) Free; clear; devoid; -- often with of.
- (superl.) Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc.
- (superl.) Destitute of effect, sincerity or sense; -- said of language; as, empty words or threats.
- (superl.) Producing nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine.
- (v.i.) To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean.
- (v.t.) To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern.
- (superl.) Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles.
- (superl.) Destitute of or lacking, sense, knowledge or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary