overempty
English
Etymology
over- + empty
Verb
overempty (third-person singular simple present overempties, present participle overemptying, simple past and past participle overemptied)
- (transitive) To make too empty; to exhaust.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for overempty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)