English-Swedish translations for empty

• tom ett
  Det är ingenting annat än tom retorik.It is nothing but empty rhetoric.
  Till och med åskådarläktarna är tomma.Even the public gallery is emptying.
  Utan genomförande förblir processen tom.Without implementation, the process remains empty.
• tömma
  Det är ungefär lika lagligt som när Björnligan bestämmer sig för att tömma farbror Joakims pengabinge.It is about as legal as the Beagle Boys deciding to empty Scrooge McDuck’s money bin.
  Dessutom har många städer gjort sig av med de containrar som materialet kan sorteras i eller har slutat att tömma dem.In addition, many cities have done away with the containers into which it can be sorted, or have ceased emptying them.
  Världens fiskeflottor har lyckats tömma planeten på de rovfiskar som är så viktiga för ekosystemen.The world's fishing fleets have succeeded in emptying the planet of the predatory fish that are so important for ecosystems.
• intig
• öde ett
  Världen förändrades 1976, vilket de öde hamnarna i Hull och Grimsby kan vittna om.The world changed in 1976, as the empty ports of Hull and Grimsby can testify.
  Den har gradvis kommit att bli en spökstad med tomma gator och öde byggnader.It has gradually become a ghost city, with empty streets and derelict buildings.
  Vi gjorde ett strandhugg på en öde ö.
• tomflaska en
• tomglas ett

Definition of empty

• 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.--

Synonyms

• leer

Examples

• an empty purse; an empty jug; an empty stomach
• empty words, or threats
• empty offer
• empty pleasures
• empty dreams
• empty brains; an empty coxcomb
• Empty cow rates have increased in recent years.
• an empty vine
• to empty a well or a cistern
• The cinema emptied quickly after the end of the film.
• Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River
• Put the empties out to be recycled

Related words

• emptying
• nonempty
• non-empty
• empty-handed
• empty-headed
• emptyhanded
• emptyness
• empty rhetoric
• empty set