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My display tables were over halfway empty, and there were half-empty or completely empty shelves all throughout the section.

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  1. adjective Holding or containing nothing.
  2. adjective Mathematics Having no elements or members; null: an empty set.
  3. adjective Having no occupants or inhabitants; vacant: an empty chair; empty desert.
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  • Now that the bottle was empty, the label had been reduced to unilluminated, flat print. —  TroubleMagnet
  • His desk was bare and empty, his name no longer on the door. —  Fatal Cure by Leonard Goldberg
  • Soon, I was sitting in an empty theater, empty, that is, except for me. —  Celtic Riddle
  • The northern cities had been smaller and half-empty, almost abandoned, and Azrad's Ethshar teemed with life, which seemed a good sign. —  Lawrence Watt-Evans - The Misenchanted Sword_v1.0
  • My display tables were over halfway empty, and there were half-empty or completely empty shelves all throughout the section. —  Overlawyered
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English ǣmtig, vacant, unoccupied, from ǣmetta, leisure; see med- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English empty, emty, emti, amti, from Anglo-Saxon æmtig, emtig, æmetig, emetig, vacant, empty, free, idle, from *æmeta, æmtta, æmta, leisure (cf. the verb æmtian, be at leisure).
  2. Also English dial. empt; from Middle English empten, transitive make empty, intransitive be or become vacant, from Anglo-Saxon æmtian, intransitive, be vacant, be at leisure, from *æmeta, æmetta, leisure: see empty, adjective, on which the verb in modern use directly depends.
 

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