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How to pronounce emptying in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms evacuation, voidance
Type of remotion, removal
Has types drain, drainage
Derivation empty

Examples of emptying

emptying
Yet the outside community began to act even before the latest emptying of jails.
From the globalspin.blogs.time.com
I read during dinner, in the evenings, while cooking or emptying the dishwasher.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
It tracks east down the mountain and then south, before emptying into the ocean.
From the newscientist.com
At the same time, the hormone progesterone slows the emptying of the gallbladder.
From the freep.com
The drain passes under six lanes of roadway before emptying into a small creek.
From the brimbankweekly.com.au
Think of the feast you can have by emptying your kitchen cupboards into the oven.
From the thestate.com
Lucky for us, the one high table was just emptying out and we had a place to sit.
From the gothamgal.com
The effects are clearly visible on the rapidly emptying streets of Mexico City.
From the newsweek.com
Just deleting the personal files and emptying the recycle bin is next to useless.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Holding or containing nothing; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours"
  • Make void or empty of contents; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building"
  • A container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store"
  • Devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments"
  • Needing nourishment; "after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"; "empty-bellied children"
  • Vacate: leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight"
  • Empty is God Lives Underwater's first full length album, released in October 1995 via American Recordings. ...
  • Empty is a cult, Australian "creative" magazine, concerned largely with printed design work, photography, illustration and film, created for the professional creative community.
  • Empty is the third commercial single from the album Live It Out by Canadian indie rock band Metric following Poster of a Girl (excluding Handshakes which was a radio promo in Canada). It was released as a single on February 19, 2007, after the band completed a tour supporting Bloc Party. ...