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overempty

verb

Etymology

From over- + empty.

  1. derived from *med-✻ — “measure; to acquire, possess, be in command”
  2. derived from *mōtijô✻
  3. inherited from ǣmtiġ
  4. inherited from emty
  5. prefixed as overempty — “over + empty”

Definitions

  1. To make too empty

    To make too empty; to exhaust.

    • […] 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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