overempty

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ empty.

Verb

overempty (third-person singular simple present overempties, present participle overemptying, simple past and past participle overemptied)

(transitive) To make too empty; to exhaust.
- 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769, →OCLC:
  […] 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

References

“overempty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.