Word Direct Answers

What does "void" mean?

Void: I 'll get me to a place more void. Shak. I 'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, I may run over the story of his country. Massinger.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like. Divers great offices that had been long void. Camden.
  2. 3.Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use. Milton. A conscience void of offense toward God. Acts xxiv.
  3. 4.He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor. Prov. xi.
  4. 5.4. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain. [My word] shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please. Isa. lv.
  5. 6.I will make void the counsel of Judah. Jer. xix.
  6. 7.5. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul. "Idol, void and vain." Pope.
  7. 8.(Law) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2. Void space (Physics), a vacuum.
  8. 9.An empty space; a vacuum. Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defense, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. Pope.
  9. 10.To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table. Void anon her place. Chaucer. If they will fight with us, bid them come down, Or void the field. Shak.
  10. 11.To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements. A watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices. Barrow. With shovel, like a fury, voided out The earth and scattered bones. J. Webster.
  11. 12.To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify. After they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken. Bp. Burnet. It was become a practice . . . to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed. Clarendon.
  12. 13.To be emitted or evacuated. Wiseman.

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