toom

American  

[toom] / tum /

adjective

1. empty; vacant.

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verb (used with object)

1. to empty or drain (a vessel), especially by drinking the contents.

Etymology

Origin of toom

before 900; Middle English tome (adj.), Old English tōm; cognate with Old Norse tōmr

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Example Sentences

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toom

Toom – Lebanon’s beloved garlic condiment, toom, is as versatile as it is addictive.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

“Then that be just where the lie comes in. Why, there be scores of these lay-beds that be toom as old Dun’s ’bacca-box on Friday night.”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Much superior to the next, which bears in its bosom the hollow and unwelcome ring of a "toom girnal"—a sound no child should ever know.

From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Robert Ford

Come this way, sir, up the stair, and take care ye dinna stumble on that toom cask o’ saut.”

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 by Various

"When northern blasts the ocean snurl, And gars the heights and hows look gurl, Then left about the bumper whirl, And toom the horn; Grip fast the hours which hasty hurl, The morn's the morn."

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

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