ALL meanings of self-emptying
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S s - adjective self-emptying containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle. 1
- adjective self-emptying vacant; unoccupied: an empty house. 1
- adjective self-emptying without cargo or load: an empty wagon. 1
- adjective self-emptying destitute of people or human activity: We walked along the empty streets of the city at night. 1
- adjective self-emptying destitute of some quality or qualities; devoid (usually followed by of): Theirs is a life now empty of happiness. 1
- adjective self-emptying without force, effect, or significance; hollow; meaningless: empty compliments; empty pleasures. 1
- adjective self-emptying not employed in useful activity or work; idle: empty summer days. 1
- adjective self-emptying Mathematics. (of a set) containing no elements; null; void. 1
- adjective self-emptying hungry: I'm feeling rather empty—let's have lunch. 1
- adjective self-emptying without knowledge or sense; frivolous; foolish: an empty head. 1
- adjective self-emptying completely spent of emotion: The experience had left him with an empty heart. 1
- verb with object self-emptying to make empty; deprive of contents; discharge the contents of: to empty a bucket. 1
- verb with object self-emptying to discharge (contents): to empty the water out of a bucket. 1
- verb without object self-emptying to become empty: The room emptied rapidly after the lecture. 1
- verb without object self-emptying to discharge contents, as a river: The river empties into the sea. 1
- noun plural self-emptying Informal. something that is empty, as a box, bottle, or can: Throw the empties into the waste bin. 1