null and void
Invalid, cancelled, unenforceable.
All retainings by indenture before that date were declared null and void 'other than to be the household servant or officer or of his [the lord's] council for lawful service done o
adj
Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
Today's youth's brains are sucked void of common sense.
I'll get me to a place more void.
Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
divers great offices that had been long void
Being without; destitute; devoid.
Suppoſe they be in number infinit, Yet being voyd of Martiall diſcipline, All running headlong after greedie ſpoiles: […] Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow.
He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor.
Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
[My word] shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please.
I will make void the counsel of Judah.
Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
null and void
Taiwan's government says that as the island has never been ruled by the People's Republic of China, its sovereignty claims are void.
noun
An empty space; a vacuum.
Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mighty void of Sense.
An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
verb
To make invalid or worthless.
Near-synonym: nullify
He voided the check and returned it.
Synonym of empty (verb).
void one’s bladder
void one’s bowels
To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
to void excrement
You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
To withdraw; to depart.
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
To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
to void a table
If they will fight with us, bid them come down, / Or void the field.