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void

[void]

adjective

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

  2. useless; ineffectual; vain.

  3. devoid; destitute (usually followed byof ).

    a life void of meaning.

  4. without contents; empty.

  5. without an incumbent, as an office.

    Synonyms: ,
  6. Mathematics.(of a set) containing no elements; empty.

  7. (in cards) having no cards in a suit.



noun

  1. an empty space; emptiness.

    He disappeared into the void.

    Synonyms: , ,
  2. something experienced as a loss or privation.

    His death left a great void in her life.

  3. a gap or opening, as in a wall.

  4. Typography.counter.

  5. (in cards) lack of cards in a suit.

    a void in clubs.

verb (used with object)

  1. to make ineffectual; invalidate; nullify.

    to void a check.

  2. to empty; discharge; evacuate.

    to void excrement.

  3. to clear or empty (often followed byof ).

    to void a chamber of occupants.

  4. Archaic.to depart from; vacate.

verb (used without object)

  1. to defecate or urinate.

void

/ ɔɪ /

adjective

  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

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noun

  1. an empty space or area

    the huge desert voids of Asia

  2. a feeling or condition of loneliness or deprivation

    his divorce left him in a void

  3. a lack of any cards in one suit

    to have a void in spades

  4. Also called: counter.the inside area of a character of type, such as the inside of an o

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to make ineffective or invalid

  2. to empty (contents, etc) or make empty of contents

  3. (also intr) to discharge the contents of (the bowels or urinary bladder)

  4. archaicto vacate (a place, room, etc)

  5. obsoleteto expel

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • voidness noun
  • nonvoid adjective
  • prevoid verb (used with object)
  • unvoid adjective
  • unvoidness noun
  • ˈǾԱ noun
  • ˈǾ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of void1

First recorded in 1250–1300; (adjective) Middle English voide, from Anglo-French, Old French voide, voit, vuide, vuit ( French vide ), from unattested Vulgar Latin vocīta, vocita feminine of dzīٳܲ, vocitus unattested and dissimilated variant of Latin vacīvus, vocīvus, “eٲ”; vacuum; (verb) Middle English voiden, from Anglo-French voider, Old French, from unattested Vulgar Latin dz, derivative of unattested dzīٳܲ, vocitus; (noun) derivative of the adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of void1

C13: from Old French vuide, from Vulgar Latin dzīٳܲ (unattested), from Latin vacuus empty, from to be empty
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Had Flanagan taken King’s you-only-live-once theme and presented reasonable, modern ways to put it into practice, “The Life of Chuck” might not feel like such a void of meaning.

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Alternatively, it may open a pathway for recalibration - if not by Hamas, then by other Palestinian actors seeking to fill the void left behind.

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The void will be filled by others, such as China, which could hardly be Trump’s dream.

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Ms Tourgon added: "It was very quick - he found himself in an awkward position with his left foot in a void over the cliff and his right knee on the edge of the cliff."

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“I think a lot of what I read these days is void of soul and heart,” she continues.

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