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Void

Definition: Void

Void

Adjective

1. (law) lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void".

2. Containing nothing; "the earth was without form, and void".

Noun

1. The state of nonexistence.

2. An empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space".

Verb

1. Declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "avoid a plea".

2. Clear (a room, house, place) of occupants; "The concert hall was voided of the audience"; to empty or clear (a place, receptacle, etc.) of something; "The chemist voided the glass bottle".

3. Take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidateas a contract".

4. Excrete or discharge from the body.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "void" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Void \Void\, adjective. [Old English voide, Old French voit, voide, vuit, vuide, French vide, from (assumed) Late Latin vocitus, from Latin vocare, an old form of vacare to be empty, or a kindred word. Compare to Vacant, Avoid.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Void

DomainDefinition

Building & Civil Engineering

In standard, dense concrete it is necessary to have enough cement paste to fill the voids in the aggregate. Source: European Union. (references)

Computing

In character recognition, the inadvertent absence of ink within a character outline. Source: European Union. (references)
 The sense and logic in which information is requested and entered. Source: European Union. (references)

Energy

In a nuclear power reactor, an area of lower density in a moderating system (such as steam bubbles in water) that allows more neutron leakage than does the more dense material around it. (references)

Health

To urinate, empty the bladder. (references)

Metallurgy

Round or elongated smooth-walled gas-filled cavity in solid metals, produced during solidification of the ingot when excess gas is liberated if the steel is not killed sufficiently. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. A general term for pore space or other openings in rock. In addition to pore space, the term includes vesicles, solution cavities, or any primary or secondary openings. Syn:pore; interstice b. That portion of a borehole from which the core could not be recovere. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Void

Synonyms: null (adj), emptiness (n), nothingness (n), nullity (n), vacancy (n), annul (v), avoid (v), eliminate (v), empty (v), evacuate (v), invalidate (v), nullify (v), quash (v), vitiate (v). (additional references)
Antonym: validate (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Void

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Absence

Empty, void; vacant, vacuous; untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited; tenantless; barren, sterile; desert, deserted; devoid; uninhabitable.

Ejection

Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind).

Space

Open space, free space; void; (absence); waste; wildness, wilderness; moor, moorland; campagna.

Unsubstantiality

Hollowness, blank; void; (absence).

Zero

Noun: zero, nothing; null, nul, naught, nought, void; cipher, goose egg; none, nobody, no one; nichts, nixie, nix; zilch, zip, zippo; not a soul; ame qui vive; absence; unsubstantiality.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Void

English words defined with "void": Actionless, Apatheticalblank, blanknesscancel, cancellation, Cass, CassateDefeasance, Defeasanced, Delightless, Disannul, dischargeempty, Excrementize, expiredFrustratoryHollow ware, HomologationImportless, Incompassionate, Infirmative, Inunderstanding, IrritancyMoatenullificationoverridePrecontractRight of nullificationScumber, Simple obligation, Stamp act, strike downThickskin, thin air, To renounce probatevacant, Vacant succession, vacation, Vacuate, Voided, VoidnessWhite line, Wrongless. (references)
Specialty definitions using "void": absolute vacuum, Aching Void, acidize, air deckingBank Storage, BOTTLE-HEADED, Broken StowageCapillary Fringe, Cask, critical void ratiodense graded aggregate, dummy locatorevacuated powderFive-minute Clause, free-flow area, FREEMASONSPower coefficient of reactivityredhibitory defectSans Souci, SCOUNDREL, shrinkage cavity, sonic pile driver, STRIPPING-SHOVEL OPERATORU'rim, Urination Disordersvertical crater retreat, void ratio. (references)
Etymologies containing "void": Wrongless. (references)

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Modern Usage: Void

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror (Sjunde inseglet, Det; writing credit: Ingmar Bergman)

Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here (Flash Gordon; writing credit: Michael Allin; Alex Raymond)

And does he know that granting me my life today, this man has killed me even so. I am reaching but I fall and the stars are black and cold, as I stare into the void of a world that cannot hold (Les Misérables in Concert; writing credit: Victor Hugo; Alain Boublil)

It's upsetting. There was still so much killing to do, and there I was, in the void, without a body (The Exorcist III; writing credit: William Peter Blatty)

Lyrics

Yet in that void I see (Ice Machine In The Desert; performing artist: Brave Combo)

Now you're unemployed, all null 'n' void ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

Movie/TV Titles

In the Void (1968)

An Aching Void (1911)

The Void (2001)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Void

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Void

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Figure 9. Sands sounder invented by Commander Benjamin F. Sands, USN, while on duty with the U. S. Coast Survey in 1857. Compression of the spring actuated levers, which separated the symmetric halves of the weight which then fell to the bottom. A valve was actuated creating a void which allowed sediment to enter the tube. Pulling up the line reset the valve capturing the bottom sample. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Titled "TIROS fills a void for World Weather Watch." This image show composite imagery in the southern ocean with accompanying weather map and analysis. Credit: NOAA in Space.

"This is a white man's government" "We regard the Reconstruction Acts (so called) of Congress as usurpations, and unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void" - Democratic Platform / / Th. Nast. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bill of Rights : void where prohibited by law. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Void

AuthorQuotation

Dante Alighieri

I came into a place void of all light, which bellows like the sea in tempest, when it is combated by warring winds.

John Marshall

An act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Sallust

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

Seneca

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seume

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.

Voltaire

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Void

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

And we shall procure nothing from anyone, directly or indirectly, whereby any part of these concessions and liberties might be revoked or diminished; and if any such things has been procured, let it be void and null, and we shall never use it personally or by another. (reference)

John Locke

1690

If men were so void of reason, and brutish, as to enter into society upon such terms, prerogative might indeed be, what some men would have it, an arbitrary power to do things hurtful to the people. (Second Treatise of Government)

Amendment to US Constitution

1795-1993

But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. (reference)

Marbury v. Madison

1803

It would declare that an act which, according to the principles and theory of our government, is entirely void, is yet, in practice, completely obligatory. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The voting is void unless the total number of votes cast is equal to half the number of the Delegates attending the Conference. (reference)

Roe v. Wade

1973

Ruling that declaratory, though not injunctive, relief was warranted, the court declared the abortion statutes void as vague and overbroadly infringing those plaintiffs' Ninth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Void

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

A few moments after he found himself on the stage amid the garish gas and the dim scenery, acting before the innumerable faces of the void.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Void

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

After the incisions heal, the patient may void less frequently. (references)

Some patients are incontinent, while others cannot void at all and must insert a catheter into the urethra to empty the bladder. (references)

Urge incontinence occurs when patients sense the urge to void (urgency) but are unable to inhibit leakage long enough to reach the toilet. (references)

Business

The purchase of an engine from another supplier would void the current maintenance contract. (references)

The chain of sandwich bars was created to fill the group’s void in a major portion of the Belgian restaurant market. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tunisia

Marriages of Muslim women to non-Muslim men abroad are considered common-law, which are prohibited and thus void when the couple returns to the country. (references)

Macau

They are particularly concerned because the Penal Code does not specify sentences for such crimes, and a legal vacuum was created when a Portuguese law dealing with crimes against state security became null and void after the handover. (references)

Economic History

South Korea

In April 1994 it declared the MAC void and withdrew its representatives. (references)

Human Rights

Venezuela

The Court declared the court-martial and sentence null and void, and sent the case to a state court in Maracay. (references)

Oman

The 1996 Basic Charter, which has not yet been implemented in this area, specifically prohibits "physical or moral torture" and stipulates that all confessions obtained by such methods are to be considered null and void. (references)

Peru

In September the Government acknowledged the infringement on the rights of SIE officer Leonor La Rosa by four of her colleagues, who beat and tortured her in 1997. The Government rendered the 1999 indemnity awarded her by the Supreme Council of Military Justice of approximately $1,500 (5,250 soles) null and void. (references)

Political Rights

Malaysia

In June a High Court judge in Sabah ruled that the 1999 election of BN candidate Yong Teck Lee to the state assembly seat in Likas was null and void due to the presence of phantom voters on the electoral rolls. (references)

Trade

Nigeria

However, if the Nigerian Government abolishes pre-shipment inspection as being presently contemplated, this procedure will likely be void. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

An Import License or FRI becomes void if: 1) the importation does not take place, 2) the supplier is changed, 3) the importer is changed, 4) the value or quantity is changed by more than 10 percent. (references)

Women

Costa Rica

An old law permitted a judge to pardon a man accused of statutory rape if the perpetrator intends to marry the victim, she and her family acquiesce, and the National Institute for Children does not object; however, an August 1999 reform to the Penal Code rendered this article void. (references)

Worker Rights

Papua New Guinea

Under the law, the Government has discretionary power to cancel arbitration awards or declare wage agreements void when they are contrary to government policy. (references)

Egypt

The ILO for years has claimed that the Labor Code undermines the principle of voluntary bargaining by providing that any clause of a collective agreement that might impair the economic interest of the country is null and void. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

FREEMASONS, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic costumes, which, originating in the reign of Charles II, among working artisans of London, has been joined successively by the dead of past centuries in unbroken retrogression until now it embraces all the generations of man on the hither side of Adam and is drumming up distinguished recruits among the pre-Creational inhabitants of Chaos and Formless Void. The order was founded at different times by Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Cyrus, Solomon, Zoroaster, Confucious, Thothmes, and Buddha. Its emblems and symbols have been found in the Catacombs of Paris and Rome, on the stones of the Parthenon and the Chinese Great Wall, among the temples of Karnak and Palmyra and in the Egyptian Pyramids -- always by a Freemason.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Void

"Void" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 49.62% of the time. "Void" is used about 531 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)49.62%26418,152
Noun (singular)46.62%24818,908
Lexical Verb (infinitive)2.63%1493,893
Lexical Verb (base form)1.13%6143,867
                    Total100.00%531N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Void

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "void".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
BebaiN/ABiblical

Void

BukkiN/ABiblical

Void

RakkonN/ABiblical

Void

ShobekN/ABiblical

Made void

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expression: Void

Expressions using "void": clearance void time declare null and void emptiness and void fall void fill a void fill the void leave an aching void null and void vanish into the void void agreement void c void detector void of void of common sense void of sense void of suspicion void space. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "void": void-bird, void-brain, void-filling, void-gulf, void-like.

Ending with "void": post-void.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Void

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

void

171

2003 by official prize received rule void

5

romeo void

47

check void

5

0 java script void

39

sticker void warranty

4

course moon void

35

touching the void

4

java script void

19

2003 entry official rule void

4

void moon

14

amanda tapping void

4

assembly based defect detecting electronics equipment germany in in inspection make other phoenix ray ray they void x x

10

tamper evident label void

4

into the void

10

into journey void

4

fill a void

10

null void

4

void of course

8

void warranty

4

burning playing resource role rpg void

7

void miniature

4

cincinnati void

7

nether void

4

java null script void

7

2003 by enter official rule void

4

pointer void

7

jurisdiction lack personal tennessee void

3

foetal void

7

lyrics void

3

contract void

6

dragoon void

3

2003 official rule sweepstake void

6

the void movie

3

void label

6

lyrics never never romeo say void

3

form void

5

void game

3

lyrics romeo void

5

never never romeo say void

3

void marriage

5

static void

3
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Modern Translation: Void

Language Translations for "void"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

pap (empty). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

vjell (belch, bring up, disgorge, eructate, puke, regorge, reject, spew, spue, vomit), zbrazëti (emptiness, gap, hiatus, inanimation, vacuity, vacuum), zbraz (clear, clear out, deplenish, deplete, discharge, drain, draw, dump, effuse, empty, empty out, evacuate, exhaust, flux, Lade, make a hole in, outpour, overrun, pour out, purge, shoot, tap, unload, unlock), i zbrazët (blank, empty, hollow, vacant, vacuous), i pazënë (clear, empty, free, loose, open, unoccupied, vacant), i pavlefshëm (dime, non-effective, null, priceless, tin, uncritical, useless, worthless), dhjes, boshllëk (blank, clearance, emptiness, gap, hiatus, Lacuna, space, vac, vacancy, white), boshatis (clean out, deplenish, empty, evacuate), bosh (bare, bladdery, blank, empty, fiddling, gassy, hollow, hot air, idle, inane, milk and water, open, thin, trifling, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, white), anuloj (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, retract, revoke, set aside, withdraw), çmbush (empty). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فسخ (abrogate, annul, annulment, countermand, defeat, invalidate, invalidation, negate, nullify, repeal, repudiation, rescind, rescission, revocation, revoke), ‏فاسد (abusive, bad, corrupt, decadent, decayed, decomposed, degenerated, depraved, disintegrated, evil, false, foul, immoral, incorrect, infected, invalid, null, perverse, pervertible, putrid, rogue, rotten, spoiled, unsound, vain, vicious, wicked, wrong), ‏فرغ (be empty, become empty, complete, conclude, discharge, drain, dry out, empty, end, evacuate, finalize, finish, pour, terminate, vacate), ‏فراغ (air, blank, completion, emptiness, finishing, free time, gap, idleness, inane, inanity, leisure, nothingness, space, spare time, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum), ‏لاغ (extinct, invalid, null), ‏عقيم (barren, effete, fruitless, futile, ineffectual, sterile, unfruitful, unproductiveness, useless, vain), ‏خال (beauty spot, mole, uncle, unoccupied), ‏ألغى عقدا, ‏أبطل (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, circumvent, counteract, countermand, defeat, extinguish, frustrate, nullify, override, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, stultify, supersede, undo, upset, vacate, vitiate), ‏شاغر (unoccupied, vacant), ‏باطل (bad, bootless, delusive, delusory, dud, ineffective, invalid, nugatory, null, null and void, obsolete, unfruitful, vicious, worthless). (various references)

   

Basque

  

huts (empty). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

напускам (abandon, desert, fall away, lay down, leave, leave off, part from, quit, relinquish, vacate), празно пространство (room, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum), празнота (blankness, chasm, emptiness, idleness, sketchiness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, vanity), правя недействителен (flaw, vitiate), правя невалиден (vitiate), безполезен (baubling, bootless, fruitless, futile, ineffective, inutile, naught, needless, no good, nugatory, otiose, pointless, sorry, superfluous, trashy, unavailing, unhelpful, up the spout, useless, vain, worthless), празен (airy, airy fairy, bare, barren, blank, empty, hollow, idle, inane, light, loose, piffling, pithless, purposeless, sounding, superficial, uncharged, unsubstantial, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, vain, yeasty), лишен (bereaved, destitute, devoid, indigent, ungraced), свободен (at large, available, disengaged, disposable, easeful, easy, exempt, facile, familiar, fetterless, floating, fluent, footloose, free, glib, go-as-you-please, immune, independent, intestate, leisure, loose, neglige, off, open, otiose, quit, spare, tripping, unbending, unbound, unbuttoned, uncommitted, unconstrained, unforced, unreserved, unrestricted, unstudied, untenanted, untrammelled, vacant, wide), недействителен (inofficious, inoperative, invalid, nude, null, null and void, shadowy, unreal, unverifiable), невлизащ в работа (unserviceable), невалиден (inept, invalid, irregular), оставам (abide, continue, endure, let, persist, remain, remain behind, stay, stay behind, stick), вакантен (open), шикан (chicane), безрезултатен (ineffective, ineffectual, inefficient, sterile, unproductive, useless). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

buit (empty). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(devoid of content, empty, false, vain), 空隙 (Crevice). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, break off, call off, cancel, close down, countermand, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, revers, reverse, revoke, set aside, stop, strike off, sweep, take off, undo, unmake, vitiate, withdraw), zmateèný, pustý (bleak, desert, desolate, dreary, godforsaken, hollow, stark, waste, wild), prázdnota (emptiness, vacancy, vacuity), prázdno (nothingness, playtime, vacancy, vacuity), prázdný (bare, blank, clean, disused, empty, hollow, inane, light, meaningless, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, vapid, windy), neplatný (defunct, inoperative, lapsed, null, null and void, out of date, spoilt, unlawful). (various references)

   

Danish

  

tom (empty). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

loos (empty, false), lens (empty, lens), leeg (empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied, vacant), ledig (empty), hol (cave, cavern, cavity, concave, den, empty, hollow). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

malplena (empty). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

tómur (empty, vacant). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پوچ کردن , پوچ (Absurd, Airy, Empty, Hollow, Inane, Inoperative, Invalid, Nude, Nugatory, Sawdust, Unmeaning, Vacuous, Vain), تهی (Barren, Basic, Devoid, Empty, Hollow, Inane, Indigent, Jejune, Leer, Toom, Vacuous, Vain), عاری از, خالی (Arid, Destitute, Empty, Indigent, Leer, Mere, Sunken, Unoccupied, Vacant, Vacuous), خارج شدن (Issue), ازدرجه اعتبارساقطکردن , دفع شدن , بیرون ریختن (Emit, Outpour, Vent), بی اثرکردن (Counteract, Deactivate, Enervate, Nullify, Undo), بلاتصدی (Vacant), باطل شدن , باطل (Inoperative, Invalid, Null, Vain). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

väärennetyksi väitetty asiakirja (deed asserted to be forged), tyhjyys (blank, emptiness), tyhjiö (vacuum), tyhjä tila (empty state, feedthrough, head space, interlevel via hole, pores, space, ullage, vacancy, vacant state, via, via hole), tyhjä (bare, blank, devoid of, empty, idle, vacant, vain), piilokynnys (cavity, dead floor), ontelo (cavity, hollow), mitättömäksi väitetty asiakirja (deed asserted to be forged), mitätön (inconsiderable trifling, insignificant, invalid, not valid, trivial), kaasurakkula (blowhole, gas pocket), ilmaton, huokostila, huokonen (pore). (various references)

   

French

  

vide. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

leech (empty, low). (various references)

   

German

  

ungültig (bad, canceled, disallowed, expired, foul, illegal, inoperative, invalid, nonstandard, null, out of date, spoilt, unlawful, unlawfully), leer (bare, blank, blankly, blanks, devoid, empty, free, frothily, frothy, hollow, idle, no-op, specious, unseeing, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, vacuously, vain, vapid). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κενό (blank, gap, hiatus, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

çmbush (empty). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"פר (annul, break, cancel, contravene, defeat, foil, violate), לבטל תוקף (invalidate), לרוקן (deplete, drain, empty, evacuate, strip), חלל (absconcio, cavity, hollow, socket, vacuum), חסר תוקף (invalid), חסר (deficient, devoid, less, missing, short, wanting), ב"ו (chaos, confusion, emptiness), בטל (goner, idle, invalid, null, off, piffling, unoccupied, vacant), ריק (blank, emptiness, empty, vacant, vacuity, vacuum, vain, vanity). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

üres (blank, claptrap, deaf, devoid, empty, exhausted, expressionless, gassy, hollow, inane, lean, leer, leery, piffling, punk, vacant, vacuous). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

tómur (empty). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mengabaikan (disregard, ignore). (various references)

   

Irish

  

folamh (empty). (various references)

   

Italian

  

vuoto (bare, blank, blankness, devoid, emptiness, empty, empty space, frothily, frothy, gap, hollow, shallow, space, vacancy, vacant, vacuous, vacuum, vide). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

虚しい (empty, futile, ineffective, lifeless, vacant, vain), 空空 (empty, vacant), 空しい (empty, futile, ineffective, lifeless, vacant, vain), がらがら蛇 (deserted, emptiness, empty, garbage, hollowness, jumble, odds and ends, pickled ginger, rattlesnake, sliced shouga prepared in vinegar served with sushi, to be deserted, to be empty). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

がら"どう (emptiness, hollowness), くうくう (empty, vacant), むなしい (empty, futile, ineffective, lifeless, vacant, vain). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

공허. (various references)

   

Malay

  

leher (empty, neck), kosong (empty). (various references)

   

Manx

  

tilgey (abort, cast, cast off, casting, chuck, discharge, disgorge, ejection, fling, hurl, launch; throwing, miscarriage, miscarry, misconception; found, moulting, pitch, plunge, pot, precipitate, precipitation, project, projection, shedding, shoot, sling, throw, toss, toss up, toss up coin, tossing, vomit, vomiting), jannoo gyn bree (abrogate, abrogation, annul, annulment, incapacitate), gyn vree (expressionless, feeble, impotent, ineffective, ineffectual, inexpressive, inoperative, invalid, lethargic, sapless, torpid, vigourless), folmaghey (blow out, clear out, deflate, deflation, deplenish, depletion, discharge, drain, drink up, empty, evacuation, hollow, unburden, vacate), follym (barren, barren as mind, blank, blank as cartridge, disengaged, empty, empty-handed, expressionless, flat, formal, free, hollow, inane, platitudinous, run down, shallow, vacant, vacuous, waste, waste in town), er neunhee (null), dyn ymmyd (dud, naught, useless), ass bree (null, null and void). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

tom (empty, inane). (various references)

   

Occitan

  

vuèg (empty). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

bashí (empty). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oidvay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

vazio (addle, bare, blank, blankness, chasm, claptrap, concave, emptiness, empty, hollow, inane, unoccupied, vacuity, vacuous, vacuum, vain), vácuo (chasm, emptiness, empty, gap, vacancy). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

gol (abyss, bald, bare, bare-bodied, barren, blank, blankness, desert, deserted, empty, gap, genuine, hollow, hollowness, inanity, leafless, naked, nakedly, nude, out at, shallow, stripped, uncovered, vacancy, vacuum, waste, windy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

раковина (air pocket, cockleboat, cockleshell, conch, oyster, pit, shell, sink, wash basin, wash basins), вакуум (depression, underpressure, vacuum), опорожнять (clean out, clear, clear out, deplenish, empty, evacuate), неэффективный (effectless, ineffective, inefficacious, inefficient, inoperative), недействительный (ineffective, inefficacious, inept, invalid, non-effective, nude, null, unavailable), аннулировать (abate, annul, avoided, cancel, canseal, disannul, dissolve, invalidate, invalidates, nullify, override, overriden, overrode, quash, render null, rescind, vacate), лишенный (bereft, devoid, devoid of, innocent, minus, naked), пустота (emptiness, frivolity, frothiness, hollow, inanity, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, vapidity), пробел (blank, blank space, gap, hiatus, lacuna, minus, pause, space, space bar), полость (antra, antrum, camera, cave, cavity, cavosurface, chamber, concavity, hole, hollow, vesicle). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

faoin (foolish, silly, unwise, vain), f s (accrue, become, empty, get, grow, hollow, increase, increasing, waste). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

učiniti nevažećim (invalidate), praznina (blank, blankness, emptiness, hiatus, inanition, inanity, lacuna, vacancy, vacuum), prazan (blank, clean, cored, empty, idle, inane, leer, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous), poništiti (abolish, annul, cancel, countermand, defeat, foreclose, invalidate, nullify, quash, repeal, unmake), nevažeći (invalid, unavailable), isprazniti (become empty, clear out, empty, empty out, evacuate, unload, vacate). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vacío (bare, blank, devoid, dummy, emptiness, empty, gap, hiatus, hollow, light, vacant, vacuous, vacuum, vast), hueco (airy-fairy, alcove, cave, cavity, chimerical, concave, conceited, empty, fantastic, frivolous, gap, hole, hollow, of fantasy, pocket, recess, vain, well). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

soso (empty, free), popo (empty, suck), leygi (empty). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

-tupu (empty), tupu (empty). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tom (bladdery, blank, clear, empty, hollow, inane, vacant, vacuous), tomrum (blank, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum), ogiltig (bad, invalid, nude). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ไม่มีผลตามกฎหมาย (null and void), โมฆะ (null and void). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

geçersiz (defunct, full of holes, ineffective, inefficacious, inoperative, invalid, no-account, non-effective, nude, null, off, out of use, paper, unsound), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, utter), boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty), boş bırakmak, boş yer (empty space, room, vacancy), boşaltmak (bleed, clean, clean out, clear, clear out, close out, debus, deplenish, deplete, discharge, disgorge, dismantle, drain, drain away, drain off, draw off, drop off, dump, ejaculate, empty, evacuate, excrete, exhaust, let off, pour, pour from, pour out of, quit, strip, teem, tip, tip out, tip over, turn out, unlade, unload, unpack, vacate), boşluk (abysm, abyss, antrum, backlash, blank, blankness, cavity, chamber, chasm, clear, clearance, daylight, desideratum, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, hollowness, idleness, inanition, Lacuna, nothingness, nullity, separation, sinus, slack, slackness, space, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, voidness), box (empty, free, unfit, unoccupied, unsuitable, vacant), ıssız (desert, deserted, desolate, forlorn, forsaken, isolated, retired, solitary, stark, unfrequented, uninhabited, waste, widowed, wild), faydasız (barren, bootless, fruitless, ineffectual, inefficacious, it's no go, it's no use, no good, nugatory, profitless, unavailing, unobliging, unprofitable, unusable, useless, vain), terketmek (cede, desert, desolate, discard, disuse, ditch, expose, fall off, flee, forsake, jack in, jilt, leave, relinquish, revolt from, throw over, walk away, walk on, walk out of, walk out on), geçersiz hale getirmek, geçersizlik (informality, invalidity, nullity, unsoundness, voidness), hükümsüz (inoperative, invalid, nude, nugatory, null, statute-barred), hükümsüz kılmak (cancel, invalidate, nullify, override), hükümsüzlük (invalidity, voidness), iptal (abatement, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, avoidance, cancel, cancellation, cancelling, cassation, defeasance, defeat, dissolution, invalidation, nullification, nullity, recall, repeal, rescission, reversal, revocation, termination, withdrawal), iptal etmek (abolish, abort, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, blank out, call off, cancel, countermand, declare off, disaffirm, disallow, invalidate, irritate, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, scrub, set aside, setaside, stultify, suspend, vacate, wash out, write off), tahliye etmek (clear, clear out, close out, discharge, empty, evacuate, free, quit, set free, strip, vacate), eksiklik (dearth, defalcation, defect, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, failing, failure, flimsiness, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, insufficiency, lack, Lacuna, lameness, negation, poverty, shortage, shortcoming, shortness, sketchiness). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

howaяy (empty, vain). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

спорожняти (deplenish, empty, quaff, tilt, tip out), вакантний (vacant), мочитися (micturate, pee, piss, urinate), залишати (abandon, chuck, depart, desert, desolate, forsake, give over, leave, quit, relinquish, throw over), пустота (baldness, blank, emptiness, frothiness, nothing, vacuity), пустий (addle, airy, bald, bare, barren, baseless, begging, chaffy, empty, frothy, otiose, sounding, vacant, vacuous, vain, yeasty), прогалина (balk, blank, chasm, gap, non-sequence, vacuum), позбавлений (barren of, deficient, destitute, devoid, frustrate). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

trống rỗng (devoid, windy), trống (empty, vacant), không có giá trị (crummy, shoddy, valueless, worthless), chỗ trống, bỏ không (uninhabited). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

gwagle (space), di-rym (powerless), diddymdra (nothingness), diddim. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Void

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

cassus, evanuerit, evanuerunt, evanuit, inane, inanem, inania, inanibus, inanis, inaniter, inritus irritus, irrita, irritam, irritas, irriti, irritum, irritus, is, texta, vacuum, vacuus, vocivus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Void

LanguageDateSourceRomans Chapter 3, Verse 31
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintNomon oun katargoumen dia thV pistewV mh genoito alla nomon istwmen
Latin405VulgateLegem ergo destruimus per fidem absit sed legem statuimus
Old English990West SaxonAmierrað we forðyþa æ þurh þæm geleafan? Nælles! Ac swiþor healdað we hie.
Middle English1395WyclifDistruye we therfor the lawe bi the feith? God forbede; but we stablischen the lawe.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleDo we then destroye the lawe thorow fayth? God forbid. But we rather mayntayne the lawe.
Jacobean English1611King JamesDo we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Victorian English1833WebsterDo we then make void the law through faith? By no means: but we establish the law.
Basic English1964OgdenDo we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Void

LanguageRomans Chapter 3, Verse 31
CebuanoGibungkag ba nato ang kasugoan tungod sa maong pagtoo? Wala gayud! Hinonoa gipabarug nato ang kasugoan.
CroatianObeskrepljujemo li dakle Zakon po vjeri? Nipošto! Naprotiv, Zakon utvrðujemo.
DanishGøre vi da Loven til intet ved Troen? Det være langt fra! Nej, vi hævde Loven.
DutchDoen wij dan de wet te niet door het geloof? Dat zij verre; maar wij bevestigen de wet.
FinnishTeemmekö siis lain mitättömäksi uskon kautta? Pois se! Vaan me vahvistamme lain.
FrenchAnéantissons-nous donc la loi par la foi? Loin de l ! Au contraire, nous confirmons la loi.
GermanWie? Heben wir denn das Gesetz auf durch den Glauben? Das sei ferne! sondern wir richten das Gesetz auf.
Haitian CreoleBon. Jan nou pale a, èske konfyans nan Bondye fè lalwa a pèdi valè li? Men non, okontrè, nou kanpe lalwa a pi rèd.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariApakah ini berarti bahwa karena kita percaya kepada Kristus, kita membuang hukum agama Yahudi? Sama sekali tidak! Malah justru dengan kepercayaan kita itu, kita menghargai hukum itu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaJikalau begitu, adakah kami membatalkan Taurat oleh sebab iman itu? Sekali-kali tidak, melainkan kami meneguhkan Taurat.
ItalianTogliamo dunque ogni valore alla legge mediante la fede? Nient'affatto, anzi confermiamo la legge.
MaoriE taka ranei te ture i ta matou, ara i te whakapono? Kahore rapea: engari na ta matou i u ai te ture.
NorwegianOphever vi da loven ved troen? Langt derifra! vi stadfester loven.
PortugueseAnulamos, pois, a lei pela fé? De modo nenhum; antes estabelecemos a lei.   
RumanianDeci, prin credinyq desfiinyqm noi Legea? Nicidecum. Dimpotrivq, noi kntqrim Legea.
ShuarShuar Yúsan shiir Enentáimtamujai pénker ajastin ainiakui nujai ¿akupkamu ántar awajsamukait? Atsá. Antsu nuna nankaamas umirkatin awajsamuiti.
SpanishLuego, ¿invalidamos la ley por la fe? ¡De ninguna manera! Más bien, confirmamos la ley.
SwahiliJe, tunaitumia imani kuibatilisha Sheria? Hata kidogo; bali tunaipa Sheria thamani yake kamili.
SwedishGöra vi då vad lag är om intet genom tron? Bort det! Vi göra tvärtom lag gällande.
UmaJadi', Alata'ala mpo'uli' kamonoa' -ta hi poncilo-na ngkai pepangala' -ta-wadi. Aga neo' ta'uli' hewa toi: tatadi-mi Atura Pue'. Neo'! Ngkai pepangala' -ta toe, tapomobohe-mi Atura Pue'.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Void

Derivations

Words beginning with "void": voidable, voidableness, voidablenesses, voidance, voidances, voided, voider, voiders, voiding, voidness, voidnesses, voids. (additional references)

Words ending with "void": avoid, devoid, naevoid, nevoid, obovoid, ovoid. (