[notusuallybeforenoun] without getting what you wanted; without taking sth to sb:
The robbers fled empty-handed. * She visited every Sunday and never arrived empty-handed.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for empty-handed is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is empty-handed a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, empty-handed is tagged as adjective.
Does empty-handed appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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