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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Empty \Emp"ty\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Emptied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Emptying}.] 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.
The clouds . . . empty themselves upon the earth. --Eccl. xi. 3.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Emptying \Emp"ty*ing\, noun
1. The act of making empty. --Shak.
2. pl. The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. [U.S.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
emptying
noun: the act of removing the contents of something [syn: {voidance}, {evacuation}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "emptying": aspiration, bleeding, bloodletting, broaching, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, cupping, defecation, depletion, discharging cargo, drafting, drainage, draining, drawing, egress, elimination, evacuation, excretion, exhausting, exhaustion, milking, off-loading, phlebotomy, pipetting, pumping, removal, siphoning, sucking, suction, tapping, unloading, venesection, venting, voidance, voiding
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