EMPTIED Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in empty

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verb

past tense of empty

as in evacuated

to remove the contents of empty the room before starting to paint the ceiling

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Recent Examples of emptied

Adjective

Videos online showed buses easily gliding through emptied lanes. — John Surico, Curbed, 24 July 2026 Is The Vivisectors disparaging this sort of ’emptied’ novel, or attempting to give it newfound spiritual relevance? — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026 Combine equal parts vinegar and water in a spray bottle and liberally spray the emptied interior shelves, drawers, bins, and walls. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 16 June 2026 Maybe reaching patriotic Judeo-Christian nirvana should feel like the unbearable lightness of an emptied mind. — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026 Bit by bit, Rachel moved her belongings back into her emptied home in Richmond. — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025

Verb

Mullen said after the first burglary, not much was taken from the machines, as they had been emptied the previous day. — Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026 As Jackson was being tended to, the Eagles sideline emptied onto the field to surround the running back. — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026 Shelves of bottled water emptied quickly as lengthened blackouts disrupted factory operations. — ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026 Collina Strada emptied its cupboards to for its S/S ’27 collection. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2026 At twenty-four, the soprano ability gone, his coffers emptied by heroin and scammers, Lymon, in his addict’s senescence, spoke to a reporter from Ebony magazine; a year later, he would be found dead on his grandmother’s bathroom floor. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2026 Office buildings and retail corridors emptied out, while San Francisco became emblematic of the challenges facing post-pandemic cities, such as an increase in street homelessness and a surge in petty crime. — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026 The refusal tier of American wealth management has emptied out. — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026 Then the offices emptied and everyone was on the same screen. — Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for emptied

Adjective

In the middle of a near-empty parking lot sat an old Chevy pickup truck, rust around the quarter-panels.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026
After a brief stay in a very creepy hospital (unsettlingly empty) Hal and John reunite.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of empty

Adjective

The remaining unoccupied houses fall into other categories, such as properties that have been sold or rented but are not yet occupied, homes that are reserved for workers or units being held off the market.

— Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026
The transfer station was closed and unoccupied at the time of the incident, and no injuries were reported.

— Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of unoccupied

Verb

The investigation report also said the fire resulted from hot metal particles falling onto vegetation below the tower, which had not been cleared in years.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
But 1,210 are now being cleared outright, according to new court filings disclosed this week.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of cleared

Adjective

Per the current listing, the site is now vacant and shovel-ready for building out a seven-bedroom, seven-plus-bath behemoth, all connected by a private elevator.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2026
The vacant 113,464-square-foot building sits at the northeast corner of Bowes Road and South McLean Boulevard.

— Rick West, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of vacant

Verb

Whole cobs of corn are cleaned of their silk, tucked back into their husks, and placed on the grill to char.

— Erin Merhar, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2026
Porterville Fire crews responded to the scene, safely removed the puppy from the pipe, and cleaned it up following the rescue.

— Denis Akbari, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of cleaned

Adjective

There's a lot of seaweed and some downed trees thanks to Hurricane Maria, but the terrain is pretty navigable.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2026
The International Hydrographic Organization — of which both the United States and Canada are members — works to ensure that the world’s seas, oceans and navigable waters are surveyed and charted uniformly, and also names some of them.

— Bill Barrow, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of navigable

Verb

The attackers used the IP addresses to host a smart contract that drained about $235,000 in bitcoin from people trying to visit the Celer Bridge cryptocurrency exchange.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026
In France, for example, officials have drained glacier lakes to head off potential flooding, Gagliardini says.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026

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