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void    Audio Help   [void] Pronunciation Key,
–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. 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 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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Main Entry:  void
Part of Speech:  adjective
Synonyms:  nugatory, null, vacuous
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Main Entry:  void
Part of Speech:  noun
Synonyms:  vacuum
Source:  Synonym Collection v1.1
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Main Entry:  void
Part of Speech:  verb
Synonyms:  abrogate, abyss, annul, avion, bare, blank, cancel, cavity, countermand, delete, deplete, discharge, dissolve, drain, egest, emptiness, empty, evacuate, free, gap, hole, hollow, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, lacking, leave, meaningless, negate, negated, nul, null, nullify, opening, quash, remove, repeal, rescind, space, unoccupied, useless, vacant, vacate, vacuity, vacuum, veto, want, wanting
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