| 单词 | void |
| 释义 | void (once / 564 pages) nadjv A void is empty space, nothingness, zero, zilch. A place that's void of all life forms has no sign of animals, plants, or people. You may recognize void from the Old Testament passage describing creation: "The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep." In other words, nothing was there: pure emptiness. When you void something or make it void, you make it legally invalid, and that kind of void often goes with null. You might tell Cinderella, "If you're not back by midnight, that arrangement with the pumpkin and the mice is null and void." WORD FAMILYvoid: voidable, voidance, voided, voider, voiding, voidly, voids+/voiding: voidings USAGE EXAMPLESAn appeals court recently voided the convictions of 73 police officers for their participation in the killings, raising criticism from human rights groups. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) SpaceX said accumulation of oxygen in a void or buckle in the liner most likely led to the explosion. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) Fayrouz Saad, an Arab American and a Muslim woman, sees “a void” in Congress and state legislatures of young, minority faces. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1n an empty area or space the huge desert voids Syn|Hyper emptiness, vacancy, vacuum space an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things) 2n the state of nonexistence Syn|Hypo|Hyper nihility, nothingness, nullity thin air nowhere to be found in a giant void nonentity, nonexistence the state of not existing 3adj containing nothing the earth was without form, and void Syn empty holding or containing nothing 4adj lacking any legal or binding force Syn null invalid having no cogency or legal force 5v clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something The chemist voided the glass bottle The concert hall was voided of the audience Hyper empty make void or empty of contents 6v declare invalid void a plea Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, quash formalise, formalize, validate declare or make legally valid break invalidate by judicial action stetprinting: cancel, as of a correction or deletion cancel, strike down declare null and void; make ineffective 7v take away the legal force of or render ineffective Syn|Ant|Hyper invalidate, vitiate validate make valid or confirm the validity of alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 8v excrete or discharge from the body Syn|Hypo|Hyper empty, evacuate suction empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction egest, eliminate, excrete, pass eliminate from the body |
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