 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
void
adjective
1: lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" [syn: {null}]
2: containing nothing; "the earth was without form, and void"
noun
1: the state of nonexistence [syn: {nothingness}, {nullity}]
2: an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the
emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be
ruling in a vacuum" [syn: {vacancy}, {emptiness}, {vacuum}]
verb
1: declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
[syn: {invalidate}, {annul}, {quash}, {avoid}, {nullify}]
[ant: {validate}]
2: clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear
(a place, receptacle, etc.) of something; "The chemist
voided the glass bottle"; "The concert hall was voided of
the audience"
3: take away the legal force of or render ineffective;
"invalidateas a contract" [syn: {invalidate}, {vitiate}]
[ant: {validate}]
4: excrete or discharge from the body [syn: {evacuate}, {empty}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Void \Void\, adjective [OE. voide, OF. voit, voide, vuit, vuide, F.
vide, fr. (assumed) LL. vocitus, fr. L. vocare, an old form
of vacare to be empty, or a kindred word. Cf. {Vacant},
{Avoid}.]
1. Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not
filled.
The earth was without form, and void. --Gen. i. 2.
I 'll get me to a place more void. --Shak.
I 'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours,
I may run over the story of his country.
--Massinger.
2. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and
the like.
Divers great offices that had been long void.
--Camden.
3. Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void
of learning, or of common use. --Milton.
A conscience void of offense toward God. --Acts
xxiv. 16.
He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor.
--Prov. xi.
12.
4. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
[My word] shall not return to me void, but it shall
accomplish that which I please. --Isa. lv. 11.
I will make void the counsel of Judah. --Jer. xix.
7.
5. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or
soul. ''Idol, void and vain.'' --Pope.
6. (Law) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of
confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. {Voidable}, 2.
{Void space} (Physics), a vacuum.
Syn: Empty; vacant; devoid; wanting; unfurnished; unsupplied;
unoccupied.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Void \Void\, noun
An empty space; a vacuum.
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defense,
And fills up all the mighty void of sense. --Pope.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Void \Void\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Voided}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Voiding}.] [OF. voidier, vuidier. See {Void}, adjective]
1. To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or
empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.
Void anon her place. --Chaucer.
If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
Or void the field. --Shak.
2. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge;
as, to void excrements.
A watchful application of mind in voiding
prejudices. --Barrow.
With shovel, like a fury, voided out
The earth and scattered bones. --J. Webster.
3. To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to
vacate; to annul; to nullify.
After they had voided the obligation of the oath he
had taken. --Bp. Burnet.
It was become a practice . . . to void the security
that was at any time given for money so borrowed.
--Clarendon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Void \Void\, verb (used without an object)
To be emitted or evacuated. --Wiseman.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
302 Moby Thesaurus words for "void":
abandon, abbreviate, abnegate, abolish, abridge, abrogate, absence,
abysm, abyss, acreage, annihilate, annul, area, arroyo,
bankrupt in, bare, bare of, barren, bereft of, bland, blank,
blankness, bleached, blot out, blow, blow out, blue-pencil,
bootless, bowdlerize, box canyon, breach, breadth, break,
bring to naught, bring to nothing, buffer, ca-ca, cancel,
cancel out, canyon, cavity, censor, chap, characterless, chasm,
check, chimney, chink, clean out, clean slate, clear, clear away,
clear off, clear out, clear the decks, cleft, cleuch, clough, col,
come to nothing, continuum, coulee, couloir, counterbalance,
countermand, counterorder, crack, cranny, crap, crevasse, crevice,
cross out, cut, cwm, defecate, defile, delete, dell, denuded of,
deplete, deprivation, deprived of, deserted, destitute of, devoid,
devoid of, dike, dimension, disannul, discharge, disembogue,
dissolve, ditch, do away with, donga, drain, draw, dung, edit,
edit out, eject, eliminate, emit, emptiness, empty, empty of,
empty out, empty space, erase, evacuate, excavation, excrete,
exhaust, existless, expanse, expansion, expel, expunge, expurgate,
extension, extent, fault, featureless, field, fissure, flaw, flow,
flume, for want of, forlorn of, fracture, frustrate, furrow,
futile, galactic space, gap, gape, gash, give off, gorge, groove,
gulch, gulf, gully, hole, hollow, idle, in default of, in want of,
inane, inanity, incision, ineffective, ineffectual, infinite space,
inoperative, insipid, interstellar space, invalid, invalidate,
joint, kill, kloof, lacking, leak, make void, measure, minus,
missing, moat, needing, negate, negation, negativate, negative,
negativeness, negativity, neutralize, niche, nihility, nonbeing,
nonentity, nonexistence, nonexistent, nonoccurrence, nonreality,
nonsubsistence, not-being, notch, nothing, nothingness, null,
null and void, nullah, nullify, nullity, number two, offset, omit,
opening, out of, out of pocket, outer space, override, overrule,
pass, passage, place, pointless, pour, proportion, purge,
put aside, quash, ravine, recall, recant, remove, renege, rent,
repeal, repealed, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, revoked, rift,
rime, rub out, rupture, scant of, scissure, scour out, seam,
set aside, shit, short, short of, shy, shy of, slit, slot, space,
spatial extension, sphere, split, spread, stool, strike,
strike off, strike out, stultify, superficial extension, surface,
suspend, sweep out, tabula rasa, take a shit, throw out, thwart,
tract, trench, unactuality, unavailing, unblessed with, unclog,
undo, unexisting, unfilled, unfoul, unoccupied, unpossessed of,
unreality, unrelieved, unused, unutilized, urinate, useless,
vacancy, vacant, vacantness, vacate, vacuity, vacuous, vacuum,
vain, valley, vent, vitiate, void of, volume, wadi, waive, wanting,
white, with nothing inside, withdraw, without, without being,
without content, write off
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