Emptily

Definition

empty /'empti/ adj ( -ier , -iest ) ၁။ (က) အလြတ္။ ဗလာ။ အခြံ။ an empty box ❍ an empty lorry (ie one without a load) ❍ empty hands (ie not holding anything) ❍ Your glass is empty. ❍ It's not good to drink alcohol on an empty stomach (ie having eaten nothing). (ခ) လူမရိွေသာ။ လြတ္ေနေသာ။ ဟင္းလင္း။ an empty house/room/chair/bus ❍ empty streets ❍ The cinema was half empty. ၂။ (က) တန္ဖိုးမဲ့ေသာ။ အဓိပၸာယ္မရိွေသာ။ တကယ္မဟုတ္ေသာ။ empty threats/words/promises/dreams ❍ My life feels empty now the children have left home. (ခ) ~ of sth ( fml ) အႏွစ္သာရမဲ့ေသာ။ words empty of meaning. ၃။ ( infml ) ဗိုက္ဆာေသာ၊ ဟာေသာ။ I feel really empty. Compare FULL v ( pt , pp emptied ) ၁။ (က) ~ sth (out); ~ sth (of sth) ရွင္းပစ္သည္။ ရွင္းထုတ္သည္။ ထုတ္ပစ္သည္။ empty one's glass ❍ We have to empty the hall before ten o'clock. ❍ empty out a drawer ❍ He emptied his pockets of their contents. (ခ) ကင္းမဲ့သြားသည္။ ရွင္းသြားသည္။ The streets soon emptied (of people) when the rain started. ❍ The cistern empties in five minutes. ၂။ (က) ~ sth (out) (into/ onto sth) သြန္သည္။ သြန္ပစ္သည္။ ေလာင္းခ်သည္။ Have you emptied the rubbish? ❍ She emptied the milk into the pan. ❍ We emptied (out) the waste paper onto the floor. (ခ) ~ (from/out of sth) (into/onto sth) စီးထြက္သည္။ စီးဝင္သည္။ ထြက္က်သည္။ The water slowly emptied (from the cistern). ❍ The Rhone empties into the Mediterranean. ❍ The rubbish from the cart emptied onto the street. ❏ empties n [pl] ( infml ) ပုလင္းလြတ္၊ ဘူးလြတ္ စသည္။ Take your empties to the bottle bank. emptily adv emptiness /'emptinǝs/ n [U, sing]: the emptiness of their lives ❍ There was an emptiness in her heart. ❍ He stared out at the vast emptiness of the sea. ❏ empty-handed adj လက္ခ်ည္းသက္သက္။ လက္လြတ္။ return empty-handed from an unsuccessful shopping trip ❍ The robbers fled empty-handed. ❏ empty-headed adj ဦးေႏွာက္မရိွေသာ။ ဉာဏ္မရိွေသာ။ ေပါ့တန္ေသာ။ a silly empty-headed youth.

Examples

1. An empty jar
2. His pockets were empty.
3. [an empty space] : There were no empty spaces in the car park.
4. An empty room
5. [stand empty] : Emma’s flat stood empty for six months.
6. The beach was really empty.
7. [empty of] : The early morning
8. when the streets are empty of traffic
9. Her life felt empty and meaningless.
10. A voice totally empty of expression
11. An empty gesture