Word Finder - void

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An empty space; a vacuum.

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Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.

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An extended region of space containing no galaxies

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A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.

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A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.

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An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.

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To make invalid or worthless.

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He voided the check and returned it.

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To empty.

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void one’s bowels

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To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.

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to void excrement

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To withdraw, depart.

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To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.

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to void a table

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Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.

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Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.

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Being without; destitute; devoid.

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Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.

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Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.

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Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.

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(of a function or method) That does not return a value.

He said nothing, void of emotion.

Alex was gone from their lives, leaving a void no one could fill.

The history of Mexico from 1884 to 1910 was almost void of political strife.

It was cold, sandy – and completely void of any other signs of life for miles.

His death left a void in the queen's life which nothing could ever fill.

Acting on this, Cranmer tried the divorce case before his court, which declared the marriage with Catherine void and that with Anne Boleyn, which had been solemnized privately in January, valid.

While the brief conversation was welcome, it left a party's-over void when it ended.

Knowledge is nothing to these men if it does not show them the infinite reality which is able to fill the aching void within.

Beneath him was originally nothing but a huge void with muddy black water at the bottom, in which his image was reflected, becoming ultimately solidified into P'tahil, his son, who now partakes of the nature of matter.

Madison's theory was that the legislature of Virginia, being one of the bodies which had chosen delegates to the constitutional convention, was legally capable of considering the question of the constitutionality of laws passed by the Federal government, and that the state of Virginia might invite other states to join her, but could not singly, as Calhoun argued, declare any law of the Federal legislature null and void.

The marriage of cousins of the first degree is declared incestuous and void.

This was contrary to the rights of the Cherokees under a federal treaty, and the Supreme Court consequently declared the act void (1832).

Celestial physics, with its pure forms and void of all matter save extension, is not such an exemplary science after all.

A series of synods, from the early 12th century onwards, declared such marriages to be not only unlawful, but null and void in themselves.

On the 9th of July the marriage was declared null and void by convocation, and an act of parliament to the same effect was passed immediately.

It provided that, on any bishop desiring to retire on account of age or incapacity, the sovereign should be empowered to declare the see void by an order in council, the retiring bishop of archbishop to be secured the use of the episcopal residence for life and a pension of one-third of the revenues of the see, or £2000, whichever sum should prove the larger.

Atoms and void being infinite in number and extent, and motion having always existed, there must always have been an infinite number of worlds, all consisting of similar atoms, in various stages of growth and decay.

At the same time Democritus distinguished between obscure (UKOTG1j) cognition, resting on sensation alone, and genuine (yvrjoL), which is the result of inquiry by reason, and is concerned with atoms and void, the only real existences.

The duke of York declared that the grants made by Nicolls were null and void; the king enjoined obedience to the proprietors, and quiet was restored.

Britain, this charter shall be null and void - otherwise to remain firm and inviolable."

But having a mind void of historical perspective he identified this Simon with Simon Magus.

On the 28th of October Mr Schreiner signed a proclamation issued by Sir Alfred Milner as high commissioner, declaring the Boer annexations of territory within Cape Colony to be null and void.

He had twice sworn, with gratuitous solemnity, to maintain the new constitution; but he was hardly out of Naples before he repudiated his oaths and, in letters addressed to all the sovereigns of Europe, declared his acts to have been null and void.

The canons of 1640 are apparently upon the same footing as those of 1603; notwithstanding objections made at the time that they were void because convocation continued to sit after the dissolution of parliament.

This prohibition was held by the United States Supreme Court in 1866 to be in conflict with the Federal Constitution and therefore null and void.

A royal edict declared the statutes of the Good Parliament null and void.

A parliament had been called in November; it voted that all the charters given by the king at Mile End were null and void, no manumissions or grants of privileges could have been valid without the consent of the estates of the realm, and for their own parts they would never consent to such, of their own free will nor otherwise, even to save themselves from sudden death.

Church, declaring all gifts made to themand all acts done by them under these titles null and void, and forfeiting to the crown all property bequeathed, to them.

In the same year a fugitive slave named Glover was seized at Racine and was afterward rescued by an anti-slavery mob from Milwaukee; the State Supreme Court rendered a decision which declared the Fugitive Slave Law to be null and void in Wisconsin.

Thus the Assembly treated the Family Compact as null and void.

Between the orbit of Neptune and the nearest star known to us is an immense void in which no bodies are yet known to exist, except comets.

But although these sometimes wander to distances considerably beyond the orbit of Neptune, it is probable that the extent of the void which separates our system from the nearest star is hundreds of times the distance of the farthest point to which a comet ever recedes.

A bigamous marriage, by the ecclesiastical law of England, is simply void.

A voidable marriage, such as were marriages between persons within the prohibited degrees before the Marriage Act 1836, will be sufficient, but a marriage which is absolutely void as all such marriages now are, will not.

The marriage wherever solemnized must be a valid marriage according to the law of the place of solemnization; if void there, no prosecution for bigamy can be founded upon it.

Nearly six million dollars worth were declared null and void because issued without authority of law.

In 1832 there was a majority from each section in favour of Nullification, and the legislature called the famous Nullification Convention, which met at Charleston the 19th of November, and five days later passed the Ordinance of Nullification declaring that certain acts of Congress imposing import duties " are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void and no law, nor binding upon this state, its officers or citizens."

When in 1410 Sigismund and Jobst were rivals for the German throne, Sigismund, anxious to obtain another vote in the electoral college, declared the bargain with Jobst void, and empowered Frederick VI.

Tennessee was the first of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union (July 24, 1866), after ratifying the Constitution of the United States with amendments, declaring the ordinance of secession void, voting to abolish slavery, and declaring the war debt void.

No person may hold more than one prebend in the same church; therefore, if a prebendary accepts a deanery in his church his prebend becomes void by cession.

Further ahead were some Gooseberry and Huckleberry bushes void of fruit.

It was cold, sandy – and completely void of any other signs of life for miles.

A post appeared to have been deliberately removed and the void filled with a bone-rich clayey silt.

They're just trying to fill a void in their lives.

The warranty on your skis will be void if you don't use a certified shop to mount your bindings.

Additionally, unless you use a certified ski technician, the warranty on your bindings will be void.

Arcade Void provides more than one thousand games for players to enjoy.

They also may indulge in using other drugs like alcohol or marijuana to fill the void between smokes.

In fact, they were quite plain, void of any intricate artwork or noteworthy features.

Another positive note is that Sam Lutfi was finally officially served his Temporary Restraining Order papers, although the rumor is that it took so long to serve him the papers, they are now null and void.