emptying

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
emptying
    n 1: the act of removing the contents of something [syn:
         {emptying}, {voidance}, {evacuation}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Emptying \Emp"ty*ing\, n.
   1. The act of making empty. --Shak.
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   2. pl. The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. [U.S.]
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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         The clouds . . . empty themselves upon the earth.
                                                  --Eccl. xi. 3.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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