emptied

Emptied is the past tense and past participle of the verb empty, meaning to remove all contents from something so that nothing remains inside. It can describe an action performed on an object (they emptied the bottle) or a state resulting from that action (the room was emptied). When used transitively, it takes a direct object; with intransitive use, it can describe dispersal or evacuation (the crowd emptied into the street). The present participle is emptying, and the related noun form emptiness denotes the state of being empty or the quality of containing nothing.

As an adjective, emptied describes items from which contents have been removed, such as an emptied can or emptied shelves. The term is common in logistics, warehousing, maintenance, and everyday speech. In data contexts, one might speak of emptied caches or emptied memory in casual use, though terms like cleared are more precise in technical writing.

Etymology: The word empty derives from Old English and Middle English, with cognates in the Germanic language family; the exact Proto-Germanic roots are reconstructed by linguists. The form emptied is a regular past tense and past participle formation in modern English.

See also: empty, emptiness, evacuation, deplete, drain.