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overempty

overempty verb: to make too empty; to exhaust.

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

Forms of overempty

third-person singular presentoverempties
present participleoveremptying
past participleoveremptied
pastoveremptied

Origin of overempty

From over- + empty.

Questions about overempty

What does overempty mean?
Overempty means to make too empty; to exhaust.
What part of speech is overempty?
Overempty is a verb.
What is the past tense of overempty?
The past tense of overempty is overemptied.

Words near overempty in the dictionary

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

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