devoid

adjective

not possessing, untouched by, void, or destitute (usually followed by of ).

verb (used with object)

to deplete or strip of some quality or substance: imprisonment that devoids a person of humanity.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English, orig. past participle < Anglo-French, for Old French desvuidier to empty out, equivalent to des- dis-¹ + vuidier to empty, void

Synonyms
1. lacking, wanting, destitute, bereft, barren.

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devoid (dɪˈvɔɪd)

—*adj* (foll by of)
	destitute or void (of); free (from)

[C15: originally past participle of devoid (vb) to remove, from Old French devoidier, from de-de- + voider to void]

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Word Origin & History

devoid

early 14c., shortening of devoided, pp. of obsolete devoiden "remove, void, vacate," from O.Fr. devoider, from des- "out, away" + voider "to empty," from voide "empty" (see void).

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Example sentences

Some parts of the park have become empty forests, devoid of wildlife.

Patients suffering from compulsive acts are remarkably devoid of fear.

The arid wasteland is mostly devoid of even sparse desert vegetation and looks

as lifeless as the surface of the moon.

It is so because those who judge them are themselves devoid of that same

foresight.

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"He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.... He does not have to struggle ... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination."

-Aneurin Bevan

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