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Meaning of EMPTY-HANDED

Pronunciation:  'emptee'handid

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  carrying nothing in the hands
  2. [adj]  having acquired or gained nothing; "the returned from the negotiations empty-handed"
 
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 Synonyms: empty, unrewarded, unsuccessful
 

 

 

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 Related Terms: bare-handed, beggarly, famished, half-starved, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished, on short commons, pauperized, poor, shorthanded, starved, starveling, starving, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, unfed, unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied
 

 

 

 

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