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void

(void)

adj.

1. Containing no matter; empty.

2. Not occupied; unfilled.

3. Completely lacking; devoid: void of understanding. See Synonyms at empty.

4. Ineffective; useless.

5. Having no legal force or validity; null: a contract rendered void.

6. Games Lacking cards of a particular suit in a dealt hand.

a. An empty space.

b. A vacuum.

2. An open space or a break in continuity; a gap.

3. A feeling or state of emptiness, loneliness, or loss.

4. Games Absence of cards of a particular suit in a dealt hand: a void in hearts.

v. void·ed, void·ing, voids

v.tr.

1. To take out (the contents of something); empty.

2. To excrete (body wastes).

3. To leave; vacate.

4. To make void or of no validity; invalidate: issued a new passport and voided the old one.

v.intr.

To excrete body wastes.

[Middle English, from Old French voide, feminine of voit, from Vulgar Latin *vocitus, alteration of Latin vacīvus, vocīvus, variant of vacuus, from vacāre, to be empty; see euə- in Indo-European roots.]

void′er n.

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Noun	1.	voider - an official who can invalidate or nullify; "my bank check was voided and I wanted to know who the invalidator was" invalidator, nullifier functionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office
	2.	voider - a person who defecates defecator individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
	3.	voider - a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate gusset body armor, body armour, cataphract, coat of mail, suit of armor, suit of armour - armor that protects the wearer's whole body chain armor, chain armour, chain mail, ring armor, ring armour, ring mail, mail - (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings
	4.	voider - a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried clothes basket, clothes hamper, laundry basket hamper - a basket usually with a cover

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