Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
And I ſhal finde you emptie of that fault, Right ioyfull of your reformation.
To make empty; to remove the contents of.
to empty a well or a cistern
A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.
Put the empties out to be recycled.
From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Ge...
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Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River.