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Meanings of emptying in English

Portuguese
evacuação
Catalan
buidatge

The act of removing the contents of something.

evacuação
Usage of emptying in English
1
How come no one spotted it emptying out into the sea before?
The Irish Times
2
A truer test, I believe, is the challenge of emptying a mind.
My Life, My Tapes
3
The works included emptying a significant amount of slurry from storage tanks.
The Irish Times
4
However, no direct causal link was found between delayed emptying and reflux.
Pubmed
5
I saw it stop; and I stayed till they finished emptying it.
Further Adventures of Lad
6
The remaining four hundred prisoners began emptying the city of anything edible.
Quest for honour
7
Guest was engaged in emptying the contents of one of my bags.
The Great Secret
8
The revolution was emptying itself into the great square fronting the station.
Erik Dorn
9
This duty consisted in sweeping the floor every morning, emptying ash-trays, etc.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition...
10
Half way through emptying the washer they were still coming out assembled.
Wired
11
Took careful aim and fired fast, emptying the pistol at his back.
In the Dark
12
By some tech-wizardry, the small space around him begins emptying of water.
Existence
13
The vaults belonging to the convent of Minims are not worth emptying.
Travels through France and Italy
14
My cellars are emptying out, and the market is all but bare.
To the blight: the eye of the world
15
Improvements in rectal emptying, pelvic feeling of heaviness, and dyspareunia were achieved.
Pubmed
16
The intrathoracic gastric emptying of solid food was evaluated by radioisotope imaging.
Pubmed
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Translations for emptying
Portuguese
evacuação
Emptying through the time
Emptying across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common