void +

(Latin: unoccupied, vacant; related to vacuus, "empty")


unavoidable, inavoidable
1. Impossible to avoid or to evade; such as, an unavoidable (inescapable) conclusion.
2. Unable to be avoided; inevitable; such as, an unavoidable delay.
unavoidableness, inavoidableness
1. Impossible to avoid; inevitable, inescapable, unpreventable.
2. A state of being unavoidable; inevitableness.
unavoidably, inavoidably
1. A description of that which can not be avoided.
2. A reference to a situation which is inevitable.
unavoided
1. Not avoided or shunned.
2. Unavoidable; inevitable.
void
1. An empty area or space.
2. The state of nonexistence.
3. To clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or to empty or to clear (a place, receptacle, etc.) of something.
4. To take away a legal force of or to render ineffective; to declare invalid: "The trial was declared null and void."
5. To excrete or discharge from the body.
6. To throw off or to eliminate by a normal discharge; such as, waste matter.
7. Containing nothing: "The earth was without form, and void."
8. In medicine, to urinate.

Just as we can void a check and empty it of value, so can we void our bladder and empty it of urine.

voidability
Anything which can be rescinded or voided
voidable
1. That which can be voided and especially annulled: "He was told that the contracts were voidable."
2. Capable of being nullified or invalidated.
3. In law, capable of being made or adjudged void.
voidableness
A situation in which something can be voided or emptied.
voidage
Voids collectively; the proportion of a volume occupied by voids.
voidance
1. The act of depriving a contract of legal force.
2. The act of voiding or emptying something.
3. The situation of having no incumbent or occupant; such as, when there is no bishop in a diocese.
4. A vacancy; not having an incumbent.
5. Evasion; subterfuge.
voided
1. Having been made void: "He ended up with a voided contract."
2. Having a section or area that has been cut out or omitted; such as, a voided christian cross.
3. In heraldry: (of a charge) depicted as if the center had been removed so as to leave only an outline; having the center and a narrow surrounding area removed or left empty.
voider
1. An official who can invalidate or nullify: "Her bank check was voided and she wanted to know who the voider was".
2. Someone who defecates.
3. A piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate.
voiding
1. The bodily process of discharging waste matter.
2. Ejecting; evacuating.
3. Making or declaring void or of no force.
4. Quitting; leaving.
5. Making void or of no validity; invalidating: "The U.S. Embassy issued a new passport and voided the old one."
voidness
1. Emptiness; vacuity; destitution.
2. Nullification; inefficacy; lacking binding force.
3. Without or having no substantiality.
voids
1. Spaces with nothing in them.
2. A series of bodily excretions.

Links to related empty, vacant words Related "empty" word units: ceno-; vacu-.


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