overempty

English

Etymology

over- +‎ empty

Verb

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

1. (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.