two-handed backhand | a backhand shot made holding the racquet in both hands |
cenotaph empty tomb | a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered |
empty | a container that has been emptied, return all empties to the store |
two-handed saw whipsaw two-man saw lumberman's saw | a saw with handles at both ends, intended for use by two people |
palaver hot air empty words empty talk rhetoric | loud and confused and empty talk, mere rhetoric |
empty nester | a parent whose children have grown up and left home |
left-handed pitcher left-hander left hander lefthander lefty southpaw | a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand |
right-handed pitcher right-hander | (baseball) a pitcher who throws with the right hand |
evacuate void empty | excrete or discharge from the body |
empty discharge | become empty or void of its content, The room emptied |
empty | make void or empty of contents, Empty the box, The alarm emptied the building |
empty | remove, Empty the water |
vacate empty abandon | leave behind empty, move out of, You must vacate your office by tonight |
short-handed short-staffed undermanned understaffed | inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc., they're rather short-handed at the moment, overcrowded and understaffed hospitals |
bumbling bungling butterfingered ham-fisted ham-handed handless heavy-handed left-handed | lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands, a bumbling mechanic, a bungling performance, ham-handed governmental interference, could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature- Mary H. Vorse |
left-handed | ironically ambiguous, a left-handed compliment |
dextrorotary dextrorotatory right-handed | rotating to the right |
levorotary levorotatory left-handed | rotating to the left |
handed-down tralatitious | having been passed along from generation to generation, among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor |
light-handed | having a metaphorically delicate touch, the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive- New Yorker |
single-handed | without help from others, a single-handed accomplishment |
cavalier high-handed | given to haughty disregard of others |
heavy-handed roughshod | unjustly domineering, incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies, a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition |
empty | holding or containing nothing, an empty glass, an empty room, full of empty seats, empty hours |
empty-handed | carrying nothing in the hands |
empty | emptied of emotion, after the violent argument he felt empty |
empty empty-bellied | needing nourishment, after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime, empty-bellied children |
innocent guiltless clean-handed | free from evil or guilt, an innocent child, the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty |
red-handed | in the act of committing a crime or other reprehensible act, caught red-handed |
morganatic left-handed | (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank, valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior |
left-handed | (of marriages) illicit or informal, in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent |
empty hollow vacuous | devoid of significance or point, empty promises, a hollow victory, vacuous comments |
handed | having or involving the use of hands, a handed, tree-living animal, a four-handed card game |
one-handed | having or using a single hand, one-handed golfers, a one-handed backetball shot |
two-handed bimanual | requiring two hands or designed for two people, a two-handed sledgehammer, a two-handed crosscut saw, a machine designed for bimanual operation |
right-handed | using or intended for the right hand, a right-handed batter, right-handed scissors |
left-handed | using or intended for the left hand, left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs, left-handed scissors |
ambidextrous two-handed | equally skillful with each hand, an ambidextrous surgeon |
airheaded dizzy empty-headed featherbrained giddy light-headed lightheaded silly | lacking seriousness, given to frivolity, a dizzy blonde, light-headed teenagers, silly giggles |
sure-handed | proficient and confident in performance, promising playwrights...sure-handed enough to turn out top-drawer scripts |
empty-handed unrewarded | having acquired or gained nothing, the returned from the negotiations empty-handed |
single-handed unassisted unbacked | unsupported by other people |
red-handed | doing something reprehensible or showing clear evidence of having done something reprehensible, he was caught red-handed |
single-handed single-handedly | without assistance, I built this house single-handedly |