void
Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
Adjective 4 meanings
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.
Noun 4 meanings
An empty space; a vacuum.
“Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.”
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.
Verb 3 meanings
To make invalid or worthless.
“Near-synonym: nullify”
Synonym of empty (verb).
“void one’s bladder”
To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
“to void excrement”
Etymology
From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.
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VOID at a glance
VOID has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (V 4 + O 1 + I 1 + D 2) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,972 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with void
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- ROID5
- FOID8
- LOID5
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