come away empty

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Verb[edit]

come away empty (third-person singular simple present comes away empty, present participle coming away empty, simple past came away empty, past participle come away empty)

  1. To come away without having received anything.
    A former gold medallist, he nevertheless came away empty from this year's Olympic Games.
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