overempty
English
editEtymology
editVerb
editoverempty (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
edit- “overempty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.