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void

/vɔɪd/ adjective

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In Latin: irritus Wiktionary

adjective Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about void at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
    Today's youth's brains are sucked void of common sense.
  2. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
  3. Being without; destitute; devoid.

noun

  1. An empty space; a vacuum.
    Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
  2. An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
  3. A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.

verb

  1. To make invalid or worthless.
    He voided the check and returned it.
  2. Synonym of empty (verb).
    void one’s bladder
  3. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
    to void excrement

noun

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Origin

From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.

From Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org (CC BY-SA)

Related Words: vacancyemptinessnothingnessemptynullnullityinvalidinvalidatenugatorynullifyvitiateavoid

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