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empties - definition and meaning
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verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empty .
noun Plural form of empty .
noun Empty liquor bottles .
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In Annabhau Sathe Nagar, a raised latrine of corrugated tin empties into a river of sewage that children splash in and adults wade across.
India: Toilets Are Scarce, And Highly Desirable AP 2010
The last crumb disappears, the last drop empties from the teapot, and my friends depart for another year.
Advent Tea... a Time of Waiting Heidi Hess Saxton 2005
The last crumb disappears, the last drop empties from the teapot, and my friends depart for another year.
Archive 2005-11-01 Heidi Hess Saxton 2005
However, the biggest increase in long-term empties was in the South West, where they rose by 10%.
BBC News - Home 2010
River floaters use those all the time to contain their "empties " - no littering on the river, you know!
Proper Grooming Jen 2009
A line of freight cars -- "empties " -- was on a siding, a short distance above the station.
Bruce Albert Payson Terhune 1907
The long recess between the Trinity and Michaelmas terms empties the colleges of Oxford, as well as the courts of Westminster.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994
If we were but nearer, I might send what the Addiscombe gardener calls the empties back again at trifling cost.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883
On the one hand you have the poor consumers, those who are drinking "the park bench bottle" that is, the empties under park benches - or, in practice, whatever brand offers the most alcohol for the least money: the likes of Tennents Super, Kestrel Super and Skol Super, all at eight per cent or more alcohol.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
N.E. and S.W. extremities of the large and deep gulph of Anadir, into the bottom of which the river of that name empties itself, dividing as it passes the country of the Koriacs from that of the Tschutski.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784
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