emptied
- 1Simple past and past participle of empty.
The crowd emptied out of the stadium after the final whistle.
The theater had emptied by the time she found her lost scarf.
Note
One spelling does double duty here, with the y of empty turning to i before -ed: she emptied the drawer, and the drawer had been emptied. The verb also works without an object, so the room emptied is as natural as they emptied the room. Before a noun the participle keeps its history: an emptied glass once held something, while an empty glass may never have.
She emptied the drawer onto the bed.
He set the emptied glass back on the bar.
emptied is a form of empty
empty, verb: To remove the contents or occupants of something, making it empty; also, of a place or container, to become empty. Full entry
- Spelling
- empty → emptied: change y to i, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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