emptying (root: empty)

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: emp=ty=ing
• COUNT in NET: 2 in 2 verses (in OT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

emptying, n. 

•  The act of making empty.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

emptying

aspiration, bleeding, bloodletting, broaching, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, cupping, defecation, depletion, discharging cargo, drafting, drainage, draining, drawing, egress, elimination, evacuation, excretion, exhausting, exhaustion, milking, off-loading, phlebotomy, pipetting, pumping, removal, siphoning, sucking, suction, tapping, unloading, venesection, venting, voidance, voiding