Empty and Thin

Empty

Empty verb - To remove the contents of.

Thin and empty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Thin" instead the word "Empty" as a verb or an adjective.

Nearby Words: emptiness, emptying, emptily

Thin

Thin verb - To alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances.

Empty and thin are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Empty" instead the word "Thin" as a verb or an adjective.

Nearby Words: thinned, thinly, thinness, thinning

Mutual synonyms

Common collocations

food empty food thin food

Both words in one sentence

  • But the faith he has found is really just an empty shell: A scam, a whole lotta nothing, a glaring emptiness hiding behind a paper-thin façade of superficial wisdom.
    Source: Scam Religion
  • Portal Cut The parts which passed through are presumably spread out in a thin mist stretching across a good portion of a light year of empty space.
    Source: Portal Cut
  • Film / Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Aluminum Christmas Trees: When Benji and Ethan are in the hallway at the Russian archives they use a 'sound projector' to distract a guard, and use a paper thin TV screen to make the hallway seem empty.
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