I.to empty out, drain, opp. to πληρόω, Aesch., Eur., etc.; c. gen. to empty of a thing:— Pass. to be emptied, made or left empty, Soph.; ἐς τὸ κενούμενον into the space continually left empty, Thuc.; c. gen., κεκεινωμένος πάντων stripped of all things, Hdt.
2.to make a place empty by leaving it, desert it, Eur.
II.metaph. to make empty, to make of no account or of no effect, NTest.:—Pass. to be or become so, id=NTest.