Word Finder - emptied

definition

To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.

example

The cinema emptied quickly after the end of the film.

definition

Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.

example

Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River.

Pierre took one of the glasses and emptied it.

She emptied her pockets and tossed her lunch in the fridge.

Fred had emptied the carton and spread the contents on the office floor.

When Filelfo arrived at Venice with his family in 1427, he found that the city had almost been emptied by the plague, and that his scholars would be few.

The black, hairy, snub-nosed face of Vaska Denisov, and his whole short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he was only redder than usual.

They emptied all the water into four canteens and took four empty ones with them.

Before evening these boxes are emptied into wooden vats 20 ft.

Lake Suwa, in Shinano, which is emptied by the Tenriu-gawa, has a height of 2624 ft.

Katie stared at the picture for a long moment, then emptied her pockets on the table.

Thus the doctrine of reprobation was emptied of meaning.

These are the coarsest mills, in which all gossip is first rudely digested or cracked up before it is emptied into finer and more delicate hoppers within doors.

Ramballe emptied his too, again pressed Pierre's hand, and leaned his elbows on the table in a pensive attitude.

She tipped it to her lips and emptied it.

Instead of ducking into the ladies' room, she pushed through the back entrance, which emptied out into a dark, rainy alley.

The water is let in about the middle of August and the basins are begun to be emptied about the 1st of October.

He took the city without difficulty, and for fourteen days, in a calm and business-like manner, emptied it of all its movable wealth.

From Idrisi's description it would appear that he regarded the Shari, Lake Chad, the Benue, Niger and Senegal as one great river which emptied into the Atlantic. 2 That the Niger flowed west and reached the ocean was also stated by Leo Africanus.

He laid down the seven of hearts, on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written "800 rubles" in clear upright figures; he emptied the glass of warm champagne that was handed him, smiled at Dolokhov's words, and with a sinking heart, waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at Dolokhov's hands which held the pack.

When they had emptied the samovar, Rostov took a pack of cards and proposed that they should play "Kings" with Mary Hendrikhovna.

Pierre again emptied his glass and poured himself out a third.

A wagon tippler emptied the tram wagons into standard gage stock.

She pays a lot of money for a large wheelie bin to be emptied twice a week.

Dehumidifiers can either be permanently fitted so the water drains as it is collected, or they can be portable, which means that the reservoir needs to be emptied manually.

Generally, if a cat owner scoops the chunks of urine-soaked silica gel and feces from the box on a regular basis, the litter box can be emptied and refilled less frequently.

A manager will be responsible for checking all slips and receipts when the till is emptied.

Once an oil field is emptied, there is no more oil that will 'grow' there as it's the decomposing mass from the past.

Empty the first container of the fully decomposed compost for use around the yard and cycle through the rest of the containers in a similar fashion, filling the emptied containers with the new waste.

Glass bottles must be emptied and washed out before recycling.

Another way to use the drug is by smoking a blunt, which is a cigar filled with the drug after emptied of tobacco.

As with the vomiting, the dog will continue to experience bowel spasms even after the tract has been emptied.

After your alveoli have emptied, your body begins to make a richer, fattier 'hindmilk.'

This vitamin C formula comes in vacuum sealed packets, which are emptied into water and best taken on an empty stomach.

Since the meat hangs suspended in the center of the oven and turns during cooking, all of the fat falls off and is filtered into a collection cup that can later be emptied.

This type of children's potty training aid is essentially a small child-sized potty, where the toddler will pee and poop into a bowl that is then emptied into the real toilet.

The pot is emptied and allowed to cool (never flush clean a hot glass coffee pot as the extreme temperature changes can lead to weakening the glass).

Martha looked at it longingly while the three of us emptied one in no time with Quinn doening the lion's share.

Soon after confirming she was asleep, the two large men who had emptied the house of boxes returned for her.

He would be ready to change it the instant it emptied.

Cars, however, are too valuable to be used in this way for more than a few hours, and it is usual to erect large storage bins at the mine, at concentration works and metallurgical establishments, in which the mineral may be stored, permitting cars, wagons and vessels to be quickly emptied or loaded.

When the new cell comes into operation and becomes the head of the battery, the first or tail cell is thrown out, and number two becomes the tail cell, and so the rounds are repeated; one cell is always being emptied and one filled or charged with slices and heated up, the latter becoming the head of the battery as soon as it is ready.

As soon as the adapters have been cleaeed of their contents, they are replaced, and again left to themselves for two hours, to be once more emptied and replaced, &c. The complete exhaustion of the charge of a furnace takes about eleven hours.

The treatment is to wash out the stomach or give such an emetic as apomorphine, and, when the stomach has been emptied, to administer demulcents such as white of egg or mucilage.

After charging, the barrel is rotated, and when the chlorination is complete the contents are emptied on a filter of quartz or some similar material, and the filtrate led to settling tanks.

Into Victoria Nyanza are emptied, on the east, the waters of the Mori and many smaller streams; on the west, the Kagera, besides smaller rivers.

The river was thus to be emptied, and to flow through a whole network of canals, watering all Lower Egypt.

In Bengal a small sheet-iron scoop or " seetoah" is used for scraping off the dried juice, and, as it becomes filled, the opium is emptied into an earthen pot carried for the purpose.

In June and July, when the rains begin, the bags are taken down and emptied 1 This is purchased from the ryots at 12 annas per maund.

In Wales, for instance, the rivalry of the sects has multiplied chapel accommodation out of all proportion to the population; while everywhere it happens that churches, at one time crowded every Sunday, have been emptied by the shifting of population or other causes.

They acted as guides during a difficult journey of nine days, kept the invaders well supplied with food, provided them with canoes, and only left them after the taking of the fort of Santa Maria, when the buccaneers were fairly embarked on a broad and safe river which emptied itself into the South Sea.

When a filter has been emptied, and is being re-charged, the water should be introduced from a neighbouring filter, and should pass upwards in the filter to be charged, until the surface of the sand has been covered.