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emptying (root: empty)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun emptying has 1 sense
- emptying(n = noun.act) evacuation, voidance - the act of removing the contents of something; Array is a kind of remotion, removal
has particulars: drain, drainage
Derived forms verb empty1, verb empty4
CIDE DICTIONARY
emptying, n.
- The act of making empty. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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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