Empty and Hurting

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Empty adjective - Lacking contents that could or should be present.

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Hurting and empty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hurting" instead an adjective "Empty".

Nearby Words: emptiness, emptying, emptily

Hurting adjective - Causing or feeling bodily pain.

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Empty and hurting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Empty" instead an adjective "Hurting".

Nearby Words: hurt, hurtful

Pyle is indeed a mostly-innocent idealist, but he's also ignorantly changing things in a situation he barely understands, woefully out of his depth, and ultimately starts abetting horrible crimes in the service of empty ideas of "democracy," hurting the ordinary people of Vietnam.

Source: Literature / The Quiet American

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