Having trouble emptying my trash, by the normal way. is there an override command?

hello, i am having trouble with emptying my trash. when i perform the normal action of emptying the trash, the wait is much longer than usual and doesn't empty. is there a command, that will override and empty, the trash?

open termonal, copy and paste rm -rf ~/.Trash/* and press enter to force empty the trash.

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Abu,
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