Word Study
emptying (root: empty)
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, voidingFor further exploring for "emptying" in Webster Dictionary Online