VOID


Meaning of VOID in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

declared null and void

The contract was declared null and void .

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

fill

The non-official majority was able to reduce the power of civil servants but powerless to fill the ensuing void .

In the resulting culture of pain, sadness and despair, disenfranchised young men fill the void of personal power with guns.

Husbands may put even more effort and hours into employment outside the home to fill the void .

So we try to fill the void by attacking other people, somehow taking esteem from them.

Often companies fill their voids with waste.

No accelerated training session can completely fill this void .

It fills all the interconnected voids , and the volume of water depends on the porosity and permeability of the rock.

A major consideration in 1983 was to fill the void left by the closure of the old dockyard.

leave

His departure leaves a considerable void .

As such, his departure leaves a void .

Male speaker It's just left a massive void in our lives which we can't fill.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

null and void

If the contract has not been signed by witnesses, it is considered null and void.

The elections were declared null and void.

Also null and void is any stipulation releasing a partner from playing an active role in running the business.

As far as he was concerned, all of the points of agreement that had already been reached were null and void.

He decided that the marriage was null and void.

My effective vote could be my first preference vote, in which case all my other preferences are null and void.

On Oct. 28 the Council declared this clause unconstitutional and therefore null and void.

The contract was declared null and void.

Went in there, saw the judge, and he say the deed was null and void.

Yet it was Shirley Place who kept the interview firmly null and void.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A void grows around the sewer or in the vicinity of it and eventually the ground above collapses into the void.

As such, his departure leaves a void .

I can't think of a thousand acres of natural activity as a void .

If you like arcade action with some basis in statistical reality, there has been a void .

It had become aware of the blossoming void long before the situation at Princetown was officially acknowledged.

Unable to provide for his wife and children, McCree was adrift in a great void .

II. adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The court ruled the state law was unconstitutional and void .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Exercises of state authority inconsistent with the Basic Rights are void for unconstitutionality.

There were 909,377 null or void votes.

Whether, in fact, the whole contract is void is a matter for national law.

III. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The ruling party voided elections in 14 cities.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

In one day a bad case can void 20 litres of water.

New floating charges can be voided if new money is not introduced.

Patients keep daily diaries of fluid intake and voiding.

So how come they void themselves on me from a great height with a white and annoyingly conspicuous product?

Some men insisted that it was not possible to make your first jump without voiding your bowels.

The city editor, Arax reports, had had numerous drunken-driving arrests voided by the police chief.

The patient complained that she had to void more urine.

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