overempty

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verb

To make too empty; to exhaust.

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Meanings

verboverempty (third-person singular simple present overempties, present participle overemptying, simple past and past participle overemptied)

present singular third person overempties · participle present overemptying · participle past overemptied · past overemptied

  1. transitiveTo 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

Origin

From over- + empty.

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Chicago

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