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vacío

empty

adjective bah-SEE-oh Less Common

Also means

hollow

Usage Note

Vacío as an adjective means empty or hollow; as a noun el vacío means emptiness or a vacuum — el vacío del espacio ('the vacuum of space'). The phrase hacer el vacío a alguien means 'to ostracise someone' (literally 'to create a vacuum around them'), a useful idiom.

Examples

"El vaso estaba vacío."

Natural Translation

The glass was empty.

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