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overempties

overempties is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overempty.

Meaning of overempty

Verb

overempty (third-person singular simple present overempties, present participle overemptying, simple past and past participle overemptied)

  1. (transitive) To make too empty; to exhaust.
    • […] would be very loth to come behind the fashion, in new fangledness of the manner, if not in costliness of the matter, which perhaps might overempty their husbands purses1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC

Questions about overempties

What is overempties the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overempties is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overempty.

Words near overempties in the dictionary

  1. overemployed
  2. overemploying
  3. overemployment
  4. overemploys
  5. overemptied
  6. overempties
  7. overempty
  8. overemptying
  9. overenamored
  10. overenamoured
  11. overencapsulate

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