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void

  [void] ,
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–adjective
1. Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.
2. useless; ineffectual; vain.
3. devoid; destitute (usually fol. by of): a life void of meaning.
4. without contents; empty.
5. without an incumbent, as an office.
6. Mathematics. (of a set) empty.
7. (in cards) having no cards in a suit.
–noun
8. an empty space; emptiness: He disappeared into the void.
9. 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. counter 3 (def. 10).
13. (in cards) lack of cards in a suit: a void in clubs.
–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 fol. 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.) ME voide < AF, OF < VL *vocīta, fem. of *vocītus, dissimilated var. of L vocīvus, itself var. of vac(ī)vus empty; see vacuum; (v.) ME voiden < AF voider, OF < VL *vocītāre, deriv. of *vocītus; (n.) deriv. of the adj.

Related forms:
voidness, noun

Synonyms:
3, 4. See empty. 5. vacant, unoccupied. 8. vacuum.
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Word Origin & History

void  (adj.)
c.1290, "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 c.1420. Meaning "legally invalid" is attested from 1433. 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 c.1325.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: void
Function: transitive verb
: to make or declare void <void a contract>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: void
Pronunciation: 'void
Function: transitive verb
: to discharge or emit (as excrement) void intransitive senses
: to eliminate solid or liquid waste from the body
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

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

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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