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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024void /vɔɪd/USA pronunciation adj. - Lawhaving no legal force or effect:This law has been declared null and void.
- empty;
lacking:[be + ~ + of]He felt his life was void of meaning. - Government(of a political office) vacant.
- Games(in cards) having no cards in a suit.
n. [countable] - empty space;
emptiness:disappeared into the void. - a state or feeling of loss:His death left a great void in her life.
- Games(in cards) lack of cards in a suit:a void in clubs.
v. - to make invalid;
nullify:[~ + object]to void a check. - to empty the bowels or urinate: [~ + object]to void the bowels.[no object]having trouble voiding.
void•a•ble, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024void (void),USA pronunciation adj. - Lawhaving no legal force or effect;
not legally binding or enforceable. - useless;
ineffectual; vain. - devoid;
destitute (usually fol. by of ):a life void of meaning. - without contents;
empty. - Governmentwithout an incumbent, as an office.
- Mathematics(of a set) empty.
- Games(in cards) having no cards in a suit.
n. - 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.
- a gap or opening, as in a wall.
- a vacancy;
vacuum. - Printing[Typography.]counter3 (def. 10).
- Games(in cards) lack of cards in a suit:a void in clubs.
v.t. - to make ineffectual;
invalidate; nullify:to void a check. - to empty;
discharge; evacuate:to void excrement. - to clear or empty (often fol. by of ):to void a chamber of occupants.
- [Archaic.]to depart from;
vacate. v.i. - to defecate or urinate.
- Vulgar Latin *vocītāre, derivative of *vocītus; (noun, nominal) derivative of the adjective, adjectival
- Anglo-French voider, Old French
- Vulgar Latin *vocīta, feminine of *vocītus, dissimilated variant of Latin vocīvus, itself variant of vac(ī)vus empty; see vacuum; (verb, verbal) Middle English voiden
- Anglo-French, Old French
- (adjective, adjectival) Middle English voide 1250–1300
void′ness, n. - 3, 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See empty.
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged vacant, unoccupied.
- 8.See corresponding entry in Unabridged vacuum.
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