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empty handed
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empty handed
bare-handed, beggarly, famished, half-starved, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished, on short commons, pauperized, poor, shorthanded, starved, starveling, starving, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, unfed, unprovided, unreplenished, unsuppliedFor further exploring for "empty handed" in Webster Dictionary Online