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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
aspiration, bleeding, bloodletting, broaching, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, cupping, defecation, depletion, discharging cargo, drafting, drainage, draining, drawing, egress, elimination, evacuation, excretion, exhausting, exhaustion, milking, off-loading, phlebotomy, pipetting, pumping, removal, siphoning, sucking, suction, tapping, unloading, venesection, venting, voidance, voiding
Dictionary Results for emptying:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
emptying
    n 1: the act of removing the contents of something [syn:
         emptying, voidance, evacuation]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Emptying \Emp"ty*ing\, n.
   1. The act of making empty. --Shak.
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   2. pl. The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. [U.S.]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Empty \Emp"ty\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emptied; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Emptying.]
   To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or
   destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to
   empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern.
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         The clouds . . . empty themselves upon the earth.
                                                  --Eccl. xi. 3.
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