overempty en · VERB
Etymology
From over- + empty.
Meanings
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(transitive) To make too empty; to exhaust.
[…] would be very loth to come behind the fashion, in new fangledness of the manner, if not in costliness of the matter, which perhaps might overempty their husbands purses
1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| overemptied | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overemptied | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| overemptying | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overempties | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |