empty : Idioms & Phrases
empty nester
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noun a parent whose children have grown up and left home
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empty talk
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noun loud and confused and empty talk
rhetoric; palaver; empty talk; hot air.
- mere rhetoric
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empty tomb
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noun a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered
cenotaph.
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empty words
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noun loud and confused and empty talk
rhetoric; palaver; empty talk; hot air.
- mere rhetoric
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empty-bellied
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adjective satellite needing nourishment
empty.
- after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime
- empty-bellied children
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empty-handed
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adjective satellite having acquired or gained nothing
unrewarded.
- the returned from the negotiations empty-handed
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adjective satellite carrying nothing in the hands
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empty-headed
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adjective satellite lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
giddy; featherbrained; airheaded; lightheaded; dizzy; light-headed; silly.
- a dizzy blonde
- light-headed teenagers
- silly giggles