void

noun

/vɔɪd/

[usually singular] (formal or literary)

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a large empty space空間；空白；真空；空虛
- Below him was nothing but a black void.他下面只是一片漆黑。
- She sat staring into the void, emptying her mind of all thoughts.她坐在那裏凝視着虛空，清空了腦子裏所有的想法。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- big
- deep
- great
- …
verb + void
- create
- leave
- fill
- …
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a feeling of being empty, caused by the loss of somebody/something空虛：因失去某人/某物而産生的空虛感
- The void left by his mother's death was never filled.他母親死後留下的空虛感永遠沒能填補上。
- It seemed that nothing could fill the aching black void left by Rachel’s death.雷切爾去世留下來的痛苦空虛似乎什麽也無法填補。

Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘unoccupied’): from a dialect variant of Old French vuide; related to Latin vacare ‘vacate’; the verb partly a shortening of avoid, reinforced by Old French voider.

void

adjective

/vɔɪd/

Idioms

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void of something (formal) completely without something缺乏；沒有 synonym devoid
- The sky was void of stars.天空沒有一顆星星。
(law法律) (of a contract, an agreement etc.合同、協議等) not correct or legally valid無效的
- The agreement was declared void.該協議已宣布無效。
- an impediment which rendered the marriage void一個令婚姻無效的障礙
Topics Law and justicec2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
verbs
- be
- become
- make something
- …
phrases
- null and void
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(formal) empty空的；空空如也的
- void spaces空位

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null and void

(law法律) (of an election, agreement, etc.選舉、協議等) having no legal force; not valid無法律效力的；無效的
- The contract was declared null and void.合同被宣布無效。
- They declared the agreement null and void.他們宣布協議無效。

void

verb

/vɔɪd/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they void	/vɔɪd/ /vɔɪd/
he / she / it voids	/vɔɪdz/ /vɔɪdz/
past simple voided	/ˈvɔɪdɪd/ /ˈvɔɪdɪd/
past participle voided	/ˈvɔɪdɪd/ /ˈvɔɪdɪd/
-ing form voiding	/ˈvɔɪdɪŋ/ /ˈvɔɪdɪŋ/

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void something (law法律) to state officially that something is no longer correct or legally valid使無效；宣布…作廢；取消 synonym invalidate, nullifyTopics Law and justicec2
void something (formal) to empty waste matter from the bladder or bowels排洩，排放（大小便）