Crossword clues for emptying
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Empty \Emp"ty\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emptied; p. pr. & vb. n. Emptying.] To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern.
The clouds . . . empty themselves upon the earth.
--Eccl. xi. 3.
Emptying \Emp"ty*ing\, n.
The act of making empty.
--Shak.pl. The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. [U.S.]
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is emptied. vb. (present participle of empty English)
WordNet
n. the act of removing the contents of something [syn: voidance, evacuation]
Usage examples of "emptying".
Maria hung her head over the sanitary blue water water that got bluer with every flush-emptying her sickened insides out, emptying and flushing in a steady rhythm.
They will not form a wrong opinion of me when they see one emptying the purse of my friends to satisfy my fancies, for those friends entertained idle schemes, and by giving them the hope of success I trusted to disappointment to cure them.
San Juan emptying from the great lake into the Atlantic, and there was Lake Managua a dozen miles or so from the Pacific.
Read Philippians 2:5-8, which talks about Jesus emptying himself and being born into humble circumstances, with the cross as his destination.
The breasts were huge, globular, absurd, alternately filling and emptying with broiling, photoluminescent red liquid, levels now rising, now filling, now waterfalling down the insides of the belly and legs, then sometimes rising again all the way to the raised arms and smiling face.
Here it collects while the ventricle below is emptying itself, then pours down between the valve flaps through the opening to the left ventricle.
Tigris, the Euphrates, and the Ganges pass beneath the Ocean to cross the regions towards which we are traveling, and then they empty into the Persian Gulf, whereas the Nile follows a more tortuous path through the antediluvian lands, enters the Ocean, resumes its course in the lower southern regions, and more precisely in the land of Egypt, emptying into the Romaic Gulf, which would be what the Latins first call Mediterranean and then Hellespont.
However, Emily Tallis wanted to share only tiny frets about the household, or she lay back against the pillows, her expression unreadable in the gloom, emptying her cup in wan silence.
The tillerman leaned hard against his pole and the boat turned, toward the river emptying from the lake on the east side.
The towerman realized, too late, that he was emptying his gun at the rungs of an empty ladder.
MUCH BETTER, SINCE NOT SILLY NOW AND DO AS TOLD, Trf said quite firmly, coming around the tank to its head and emptying a small pail of something whose fumes came close to making Laria gag.
She looked down the shadowy line of Fremen, saw Stilgar with Paul standing beside him and the watermasters emptying their load into the pool through a flowmeter.
In such a hostelry I always found the wharfmaster, in green coat and cap, asleep in an arm-chair, with the burgomaster and one or two idle landed proprietors sitting near him at a card-table, enveloped in such a cloud of smoke that one could scarcely see the long-necked flasks of white wine which they were rapidly emptying.
Pavlov, what Skinner was doing was emptying organisms of their biology, turning them into little more than artefacts, robots to be manipulated - trained - by the psychologist.
The small bobbins were emptied so rapidly, and there were so many large bobbins that did the emptying, that there were no idle moments.