Void - Interesting word #3

void

/vɔɪd/ Show Spelled Pronunciation
[void]

–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. counter 3 (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.

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Origin:
1250–1300

Related forms:

voidness, noun

Synonyms:
3, 4. See empty. 5. vacant, unoccupied. 8.vacuum.