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adjective

Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.

useless; ineffectual; vain.

devoid; destitute (usually followed by of): a life void of meaning.

without contents; empty.

without an incumbent, as an office.

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Mathematics. (of a set) empty.

(in cards) having no cards in a suit.

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noun

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.

10.

a gap or opening, as in a wall.

11.

a vacancy; vacuum.

12.

Typography. counter³ (def. 10).

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13.

(in cards) lack of cards in a suit: a void in clubs.

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a judicial order to forbid a particular act until a decision is reached on an application for an injunction

reasonable ground for a belief, as that the accused was guilty of the crime, used especially as a defense to an action for malicious prosecution

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verb (used with object)

14.

to make ineffectual; invalidate; nullify: to void a check.

15.

to empty; discharge; evacuate: to void excrement.

16.

to clear or empty (often followed by of): to void a chamber of occupants.

17.

Archaic. to depart from; vacate.

verb (used without object)

18.

to defecate or urinate.

Origin:
1250–1300; (adj.) Middle English voide < Anglo-French, Old French < Vulgar Latin *vocīta, feminine of *vocītus, dissimilated variant of Latin vocīvus, itself variant of vac(ī)vus empty; see vacuum; (v.) Middle English voiden < Anglo-French voider, Old French < Vulgar Latin *vocītāre, derivative of *vocītus; (noun) derivative of the adj.

Related forms

void·ness, noun

non·void, adjective, noun

pre·void, verb (used with object)

un·void, adjective

un·void·ness, noun

Synonyms
3, 4. See empty. 5. vacant, unoccupied. 8. vacuum.

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World English Dictionary

void (vɔɪd)

—*adj* (foll by of)
1.	without contents; empty
2.	not legally binding: null and void
3.	(of an office, house, position, etc) without an incumbent; unoccupied
4.	destitute or devoid: void of resources
5.	having no effect; useless: all his efforts were rendered void
6.	(of a card suit or player) having no cards in a particular suit: his spades were void

—n
7.	an empty space or area: the huge desert voids of Asia
8.	a feeling or condition of loneliness or deprivation: his divorce left him in a void
9.	a lack of any cards in one suit: to have a void in spades
10.	Also called: counter the inside area of a character of type, such as the inside of an o

—vb
11.	to make ineffective or invalid
12.	to empty (contents, etc) or make empty of contents
13.	(also intr) to discharge the contents of (the bowels or urinary bladder)
14.	archaic to vacate (a place, room, etc)
15.	obsolete to expel

[C13: from Old French vuide, from Vulgar Latin vocītus (unattested), from Latin vacuus empty, from vacāre to be empty]

'voider

—n

'voidness

—n

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Word Origin & History

void

late 13c., "unoccupied, vacant," from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr. voide "empty, vast, wide, hollow, waste," from L. vocivus "unoccupied, vacant," related to vacuus "empty" (see vacuum). Meaning "lacking or wanting" (something) is recorded from early 15c. Meaning "legally invalid"

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is attested from mid-15c. Noun sense of "empty space, vacuum" is from 1727. The verb meaning "to clear" (some place, of something) is first recorded c.1300; meaning "to deprive (something) of legal validity" is attested from early 14c.

COLLAPSE

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

void (void)
v. void·ed, void·ing, voids
To excrete body wastes. adj.
Containing no matter; empty.

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

void

see null and void.

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