emptying
Meaning of emptying
verb, gerund or present participle
- remove all the contents of (a container).
we empty the till at closing time
pockets were emptied of loose change
Old English ǣmtig, ǣmetig ‘at leisure, empty’, from ǣmetta ‘leisure’, perhaps from ā ‘no, not’ + mōt ‘meeting’ (see moot).
Information about emptying
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of emptying is: emptyings.
- Languages in which emptying is used:
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Hyphenation of emptying
emp-ty-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- emptying is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
emptying synonyms
Meaning voidance:
Meaning remove goods from (a vehicle, ship, container, etc.):
Meaning open and remove the contents of (a suitcase, bag, or package):
Meaning relieve (someone) of a burden:
Meaning relieve (someone or something) of a burden or responsibility:
Meaning remove an obstruction or unwanted item or items from:
Meaning leave (a place that one previously occupied):
Meaning remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safer place:
Meaning discharge or drain away (water, gases, etc.):
Meaning unload (a ship or cargo):
emptying antonyms
Meaning cause (a space or container) to become full or almost full:
Meaning fill (a vehicle, ship, container, etc.) with a large amount of something:
Words that rhyme with emptying
betra'ying, Maying, abraying, affraying, alaying, allaying, apaying, appaying, arraying, assaying, baying, belaying, bendaying, beraying, betraying, bewraying, bioassaying, braying, bricklaying, cardplaying, causewaying, claying, daying, decaying, deejaying, defraying, delaying, denaying, deraying, disarraying, dismaying, displaying, doomsaying, downplaying, draying, effraying, embaying, endplaying, essaying, estraying, faying, flaying, foraying, forelaying, foresaying, forraying, forsaying, fraying, gainsaying, gatewaying
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