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void
/vɔɪd/
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What does void mean?
adjective
- Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- Being without; destitute; devoid.
More meanings (21)
adjective
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- Of a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
- Having no cards in a particular suit.
noun
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
- A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
- An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
- (humorous) A black cat.
- An empty place; a location that has nothing useful.
- The lack of cards in a particular suit.
- A cavity or empty space caused by water erosion.
- An instance of urination.
- (archaic, historical) A voidee.
verb
- To make invalid or worthless.
- Synonym of empty (verb).
- To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
- (obsolete) To withdraw; to depart.
- (obsolete) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
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IPA pronunciation
/vɔɪd/
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After sixty years or so of growing astonishment the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death.
It must be added that if this impulse was not vicious or malicious, it was by no means void of humorous expectancy.
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He let void out of his chamber all manner of men, lords and others, for he would speak with me in counsel.
The instalments having ceased and the houses void, the property becomes a profitless burden upon the society and a probable ultimate loss.
There was a void in his memory, a black spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.—Many things had been lost therein.