void
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Forms: form: voids
form: voiding
form: voided
form: voided
Etymology: From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: nullify
text: He voided the check and returned it.
text: Opening this subassembly will void the warranty; there are no user-serviceable parts inside it.
text: It was become a practice[…]to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
text: after they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken
ref: a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:
glosses: To make invalid or worthless.
examples: text: void one’s bladder
text: void one’s bowels
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of empty (verb).
synonyms: word: empty
extra: verb
examples: text: to void excrement
text: You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: With shovel, like a fury, voided out / The earth and scattered bones.
ref: 1612, John Webster, The White Devil:
text: a watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices
ref: a. 1692, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance:
glosses: To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
examples: text: BY than come in to the feld kynge Ban as fyers as a lyon[…]/ Ha a said kyng Lot we must be discomfyte / for yonder I see the moste valyaunt knyght of the world / and the man of the most renoume / for suche ij bretheren as is kyng Ban & kyng bors ar not lyuynge / wherfore we must nedes voyde or deye
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
glosses: To withdraw; to depart.
examples: text: to void a table
text: If they will fight with us, bid them come down, / Or void the field.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
Synonyms: sense: make invalid or worthless
word: annul
sense: make invalid or worthless
word: cancel
sense: (medicine) to empty
word: evacuate
Derived terms: topics: medicine
sciences
word: postvoid