Empty and Nullify

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"
  • synonyms: vacate, abandon
• Remove.
  • usage: "Empty the water"
• Excrete or discharge from the body.
  • synonyms: evacuate, void

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"
  • synonyms: hollow, vacuous
• 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"

• (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.

verb

• Declare invalid.
  • usage: "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
  • synonyms: invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid
• Show to be invalid.
  • synonyms: invalidate
• Make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of.
  • usage: "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"
  • synonyms: neutralize, neutralise, negate

• (a.) To make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.
• (a.) To make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.