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overemptying

overemptying is the present participle and gerund 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 overemptying

What is overemptying the present participle and gerund of?
Overemptying is the present participle and gerund of overempty.

Words near overemptying in the dictionary

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

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