▸ adjective: Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant. ▸ adjective: (computing, programming, mathematics) Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value). ▸ adjective: (obsolete) Free; clear; devoid; often with of. ▸ adjective: Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened. ▸ adjective: Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language. ▸ adjective: Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain. ▸ adjective: Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial. ▸ adjective: Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy. ▸ adjective: (of some female animals, especially cows and sheep) Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season. ▸ adjective: (obsolete, of a plant or tree) Producing nothing; unfruitful. ▸ adjective: Hungry. ▸ adjective: (oenology) Lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish. ▸ verb: (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to remove the contents of. ▸ verb: (intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination. ▸ noun: (chiefly in the plural) A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.
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