[syn: null, void]
2. containing nothing;
- Example: "the earth was without form, and void"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Void \Void\, n.
An empty space; a vacuum.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defense,
And fills up all the mighty void of sense. --Pope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Void \Void\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Voided; p. pr. & vb. n.
Voiding.] [OF. voidier, vuidier. See Void, a.]
1. To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or
empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.
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Void anon her place. --Chaucer.
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If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
Or void the field. --Shak.
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2. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge;
as, to void excrements.
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A watchful application of mind in voiding
prejudices. --Barrow.
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With shovel, like a fury, voided out
The earth and scattered bones. --J. Webster.
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3. To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to
vacate; to annul; to nullify.
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After they had voided the obligation of the oath he
had taken. --Bp. Burnet.
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It was become a practice . . . to void the security
that was at any time given for money so borrowed.
--Clarendon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Void \Void\, a. [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.
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The earth was without form, and void. --Gen. i. 2.
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I 'll get me to a place more void. --Shak.
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I 'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours,
I may run over the story of his country.
--Massinger.
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2. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and
the like.
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Divers great offices that had been long void.
--Camden.
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3. Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void
of learning, or of common use. --Milton.
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A conscience void of offense toward God. --Acts
xxiv. 16.
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He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor.
--Prov. xi.
12.
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4. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
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[My word] shall not return to me void, but it shall
accomplish that which I please. --Isa. lv. 11.
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I will make void the counsel of Judah. --Jer. xix.
7.
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5. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or
soul. "Idol, void and vain." --Pope.
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6. (Law) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of
confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.
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Void space (Physics), a vacuum.
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Syn: Empty; vacant; devoid; wanting; unfurnished; unsupplied;
unoccupied.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Void \Void\, v. i.
To be emitted or evacuated. --Wiseman.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
void
adj 1: lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" [syn:
null, void]
2: containing nothing; "the earth was without form, and void"
n 1: the state of nonexistence [syn: nothingness, void,
nullity, nihility]
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: void, vacancy, emptiness,
vacuum]
v 1: declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
[syn: invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid,
nullify] [ant: formalise, formalize, validate]
2: 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"
3: take away the legal force of or render ineffective;
"invalidate a contract" [syn: invalidate, void,
vitiate] [ant: validate]
4: excrete or discharge from the body [syn: evacuate, void,
empty]