Definition of void

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void    (void) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:

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.

NOUN:

1. 1. An empty space.
   2. 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.

VERB:
void·ed, void·ing, voids
VERB:
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.

VERB:
intr.

To excrete body wastes.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French voide, feminine of voit, from Vulgar Latin *vocitus, alteration of Latin vacvus, vocvus, variant of vacuus, from vacre, to be empty; see eu- in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
voider(Noun)