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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
void /vɔɪd/

▶adjective

1 not valid or legally binding.
■ (of speech or action) ineffectual; useless.

2 completely empty.
■ (void of) free from; lacking.

■ formal (of an office or position) vacant.

3 (in bridge and whist) having been dealt no cards in a particular suit.

▶noun

1 a completely empty space.
■ an unfilled space in a wall, building, or structure.

2 (in bridge and whist) a suit in which a player is dealt no cards.

▶verb

1 discharge or drain away (water, gases, etc.).
■ chiefly Medicine excrete (waste matter).

■ (usu. as adj. voided) empty or evacuate (a container or space).

2 chiefly N. Amer. declare to be not valid or legally binding.

3 (as adj. voided) Heraldry (of a bearing) having the central area cut away so as to show the field.

– derivatives
voidable adjective,
voidness noun.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘unoccupied’): from a dial. var. of OFr. vuide; rel. to L. vacare ‘vacate’; the verb partly a shortening of avoid, reinforced by OFr. voider.

'void' also found in these Oxford entries:

avoid - chaos - chicane - defeasance - defeat - extinguish - mortgage - null - nullify - nullity - quash - vast

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