Void
adjective
1.
Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.
2.
useless; ineffectual; vain.
3.
devoid; destitute (usually followed 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. counter3 (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 followed by of):
to void a chamber of occupants.
17.
Archaic. to depart from; vacate.
verb (used without object)
18.
to defecate or urinate.
adjective
1.
without contents; empty
2.
not legally binding: null and void
3.
(of an office, house, position, etc) without an incumbent; unoccupied
4.
(postpositive) foll by of. 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
noun
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
verb (mainly transitive)
11.
to make ineffective or invalid
12.
to empty (contents, etc) or make empty of contents
13.
(also intransitive) to discharge the contents of (the bowels or urinary bladder)
14.
(archaic) to vacate (a place, room, etc)
15.
(obsolete) to expel
void (void)
v. void·ed, void·ing, voids
To excrete body wastes. adj.
Containing no matter; empty.
see: null and void
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