English dictionary
void
nounPronunciation
/vɔɪd/
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
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.
verb
- To make invalid or worthless.
- To empty.
- To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
- To withdraw, depart.
- To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
adjective
- Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- Being without; destitute; devoid.
- 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.
noun
- A voidee.
Example sentences
Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
He voided the check and returned it.
void one’s bowels
to void excrement
to void a table