Overempty
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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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