overempty

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ empty.

Verb

overempty (third-person singular simple present overempties, present participle overemptying, simple past and past participle overemptied)

  1. (transitive) To make too empty; to exhaust.
    • 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: [] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, [], →OCLC:
      [] would be very loth to come behind the fashion, in new fangledness of the manner, if not in costliness of the matter, which perhaps might overempty their husbands purses

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