[v??d]
¦ 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 adjective voided] empty or evacuate (a container or space).
2. chiefly N. Amer. declare to be not valid or legally binding.
3. [as adjective 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 dialect var. of OFr.
vuide; related to L.
vacare 'vacate'; the verb partly a shortening of
avoid, reinforced by OFr.
voider.