English-French translations for empty

vide
Les magasins étaient cependant vides. However, the shops were empty. Tout cela n’est qu’une coquille vide. It is nothing but empty rhetoric. Viendra-t-elle les mains vides? Is she supposed to go empty-handed?
vider
Il ne faut pas utiliser un instrument de succès et le vider de son contenu. There is no need to take a successful instrument and empty it of content. C’est comme si nous avions pêché tous les poissons d’un lac pour ensuite vider le lac suivant de tous ses poissons également. It is as if we had come to a lake and fished it empty and then moved on to another lake and fished that one empty as well. Comme le grand coach footballistique Giovanni Trapattoni le dirait probablement, tout se résume à enlever sa ceinture et ses chaussures et à vider ses bouteilles! As top Italian football coach Giovanni Trapattoni would probably put it, 'Belts off, bottles empty, shoes off!'

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creux
Nous ne pourrons nous contenter d'un manifeste creux. It cannot be simply an empty manifesto. En réalité, tout ce que j’ai entendu sonnait absolument creux. What I heard was actually no more than empty phrases. Il ne s'agit pas seulement de mots creux dépourvus de sens. These are not merely empty words with no real meaning.
désert
Elle est progressivement devenue une ville fantôme, aux rues désertes et aux immeubles délabrés. It has gradually become a ghost city, with empty streets and derelict buildings. Si vous ne pouvez engranger ces résultats, je crois que les futurs Conseils européens informels seront aussi déserts que l'est cette Assemblée aujourd'hui. If you do not get these results I think future informal European Councils will be as empty as this Chamber is today. Il n'est pas convenable que les visiteurs qui se rendent dans l'hémicycle en vue d'assister à un débat raisonnablement intéressant trouvent le site désert. It is not good for visitors to come into the Chamber in the expectation of hearing a reasonably interesting debate, and then to find the place empty.
inhabité

Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant
Containing no elements , opposed to being null (having no valid value
Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened
Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language
Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain
Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial
Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy
Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season
Producing nothing; unfruitful; said of a plant or tree
To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of
Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination
A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty. can also be a crate etc.--

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