void
Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.
an empty space; emptiness: He disappeared into the void.
something experienced as a loss or privation: His death left a great void in her life.
a gap or opening, as in a wall.
Typography. counter3 (def. 10).
(in cards) lack of cards in a suit: a void in clubs.
to make ineffectual; invalidate; nullify: to void a check.
to clear or empty (often followed by of): to void a chamber of occupants.
Archaic. to depart from; vacate.
to defecate or urinate.
Origin of void
1synonym study For void
Other words for void
Other words from void
- voidness, noun
- non·void, adjective, noun
- pre·void, verb (used with object)
- un·void, adjective
- un·void·ness, noun
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How to use void in a sentence
Indeed, any fraud of the insured in procuring the policy has the effect of voiding it if the insurer chooses to do so.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesIn the coffee countries even today the natives are very fond, and eat freely, of the ripe coffee cherries, voiding the seeds.
All About Coffee | William H. UkersI had relied, in case anything went wrong with our plan, upon voiding the contract in court.
Connie Morgan in the Lumber Camps | James B. HendryxThat had a horrible sound, but that meant only voiding the storythrowing it out.
Joan of the Journal | Helen Diehl OldsHe says that no one will call the action of the spider instinctive in voiding the fluids from its glands when they are too full.
Unconscious Memory | Samuel Butler
British Dictionary definitions for void
/ (vɔɪd) /
without contents; empty
not legally binding: null and void
(of an office, house, position, etc) without an incumbent; unoccupied
(postpositive foll by of) destitute or devoid: void of resources
having no effect; useless: all his efforts were rendered void
(of a card suit or player) having no cards in a particular suit: his spades were void
an empty space or area: the huge desert voids of Asia
a feeling or condition of loneliness or deprivation: his divorce left him in a void
a lack of any cards in one suit: to have a void in spades
Also called: counter the inside area of a character of type, such as the inside of an o
to make ineffective or invalid
to empty (contents, etc) or make empty of contents
(also intr) to discharge the contents of (the bowels or urinary bladder)
archaic to vacate (a place, room, etc)
obsolete to expel
Origin of void
1Derived forms of void
- voider, noun
- voidness, noun
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Other Idioms and Phrases with void
see null and void.
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