Overempty

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make too empty; to exhaust. transitive

    "[…] 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"

Example

More examples

"[…] 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"

Etymology

From over- + empty.

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