| devoid | | |
| adj. | 1. barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent | completely wanting or lacking.; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" |
| ~ nonexistent | not having existence or being or actuality.; "chimeras are nonexistent" |
| empty | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. empty | a container that has been emptied.; "return all empties to the store" |
| ~ container | any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another). |
| v. (change) | 2. empty | make void or empty of contents.; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ bail | empty (a vessel) by bailing. |
| ~ empty, discharge | become empty or void of its content.; "The room emptied" |
| ~ clean out, clear out | empty completely.; "We cleaned out all the drawers" |
| ~ bleed | drain of liquid or steam.; "bleed the radiators"; "the mechanic bled the engine" |
| ~ evacuate | empty completely.; "evacuate the bottle" |
| ~ evacuate | create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel). |
| ~ eviscerate | remove the contents of.; "eviscerate the stomach" |
| ~ void | clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something.; "The chemist voided the glass bottle"; "The concert hall was voided of the audience" |
| ~ clear | remove the occupants of.; "Clear the building" |
| ~ clear | rid of instructions or data.; "clear a memory buffer" |
| ~ exhaust | use up the whole supply of.; "We have exhausted the food supplies" |
| ~ knock out | empty (as of tobacco) by knocking out.; "knocked out a pipe" |
| ~ drain | empty of liquid; drain the liquid from.; "We drained the oil tank" |
| ~ core out, hollow out, hollow | remove the interior of.; "hollow out a tree trunk" |
| ~ gut | empty completely; destroy the inside of.; "Gut the building" |
| v. (change) | 3. discharge, empty | become empty or void of its content.; "The room emptied" |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| ~ flow away, flow off | flow off or away gradually.; "The water flowed off from the pipe" |
| v. (motion) | 4. abandon, empty, vacate | leave behind empty; move out of.; "You must vacate your office by tonight" |
| ~ go forth, leave, go away | go away from a place.; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight" |
| v. (contact) | 5. empty | remove.; "Empty the water" |
| ~ remove, take away, withdraw, take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| ~ unlade, offload, unload | take the load off (a container or vehicle).; "unload the truck"; "offload the van" |
| v. (body) | 6. empty, evacuate, void | excrete or discharge from the body. |
| ~ egest, excrete, eliminate, pass | eliminate from the body.; "Pass a kidney stone" |
| ~ suction | empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction.; "suction the uterus in an abortion" |
| adj. | 7. empty | holding or containing nothing.; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours" |
| ~ stripped, bare | having everything extraneous removed including contents.; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare" |
| ~ blank, white, clean | (of a surface) not written or printed on.; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" |
| ~ empty-handed | carrying nothing in the hands. |
| ~ glazed, glassy | (used of eyes) lacking liveliness.; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom" |
| ~ lifeless | destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings.; "after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly" |
| ~ looted, pillaged, plundered, ransacked | wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value.; "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village" |
| ~ vacant | without an occupant or incumbent.; "the throne is never vacant" |
| ~ vacant | void of thought or knowledge.; "a vacant mind" |
| ~ vacuous | devoid of matter.; "a vacuous space" |
| ~ void | containing nothing.; "the earth was without form, and void" |
| adj. | 8. empty, hollow, vacuous | devoid of significance or point.; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments" |
| ~ meaningless, nonmeaningful | having no meaning or direction or purpose.; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation" |
| adj. | 9. empty, empty-bellied | needing nourishment.; "after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"; "empty-bellied children" |
| ~ hungry | feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food.; "a world full of hungry people" |
| adj. | 10. empty | emptied of emotion.; "after the violent argument he felt empty" |
| ~ drained | emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid).; "a drained marsh"; "a drained tank"; "a drained and apathetic old man...not caring any longer about anything" |
| hollow | | |
| n. (shape) | 1. hollow | a cavity or space in something.; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks" |
| ~ enclosed space, cavity | space that is surrounded by something. |
| n. (object) | 2. holler, hollow | a small valley between mountains.; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians" |
| ~ dell, dingle | a small wooded hollow. |
| ~ vale, valley | a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river. |
| n. (object) | 3. hole, hollow | a depression hollowed out of solid matter. |
| ~ burrow, tunnel | a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter. |
| ~ gopher hole | a hole in the ground made by gophers. |
| ~ kettle hole, kettle | (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits. |
| ~ natural depression, depression | a sunken or depressed geological formation. |
| ~ cavity, pit | a sizeable hole (usually in the ground).; "they dug a pit to bury the body" |
| ~ chuckhole, pothole | a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface). |
| ~ rabbit burrow, rabbit hole | a hole in the ground as a nest made by wild rabbits. |
| ~ wormhole | hole made by a burrowing worm. |
| v. (contact) | 4. dig, excavate, hollow | remove the inner part or the core of.; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside" |
| ~ remove, take away, withdraw, take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| ~ drive | excavate horizontally.; "drive a tunnel" |
| ~ trench, ditch | cut a trench in, as for drainage.; "ditch the land to drain it"; "trench the fields" |
| v. (contact) | 5. core out, hollow, hollow out | remove the interior of.; "hollow out a tree trunk" |
| ~ empty | make void or empty of contents.; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building" |
| ~ gouge, rout | make a groove in. |
| ~ scollop, scallop | form scallops in.; "scallop the meat" |
| ~ hole | make holes in. |
| ~ suck in, draw in | draw in as if by suction.; "suck in your cheeks and stomach" |
| ~ scoop out | hollow out with a scoop.; "scoop out a melon" |
| ~ cavern, cavern out | hollow out as if making a cavern. |
| ~ cave, undermine | hollow out as if making a cave or opening.; "The river was caving the banks" |
| ~ dig, dig out | create by digging.; "dig a hole"; "dig out a channel" |
| ~ excavate | form by hollowing.; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity" |
| ~ core | remove the core or center from.; "core an apple" |
| adj. | 6. hollow | not solid; having a space or gap or cavity.; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year" |
| ~ empty | holding or containing nothing.; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours" |
| ~ cavernous | being or suggesting a cavern.; "vast cavernous chambers hollowed out of limestone" |
| ~ deep-set, recessed, sunken | having a sunken area.; "hunger gave their faces a sunken look" |
| ~ fistular, fistulate, fistulous | hollow and tube-shaped like a reed. |
| ~ cannular, tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular, vasiform | constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids). |
| adj. | 7. hollow | as if echoing in a hollow space.; "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom" |
| ~ reverberant | having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected.; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon" |
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