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| Main Entry: | void |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness, want |
| Synonyms: | blank, cavity, gap, hole, hollow, lack, nothingness, nullity, opening, space, vacuity, vacuum, blankness, nihility |
| Notes: | void means empty; devoid means empty, but empty only after something has been taken away |
| Antonyms: | fullness |
| Main Entry: | void |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | empty |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, bare, barren, bereft, clear, destitute, devoid, drained, free, lacking, short, shy, unfilled, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, without, deprived, emptied, scant, tenantless |
| Antonyms: | filled, full, occupied |
| Main Entry: | void |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get rid of; empty |
| Synonyms: | clear, deplete, discharge, dispose, drain, dump, eject, eliminate, emit, evacuate, flow, give off, go, pour, relieve, remove, throw out, vacate |
| Antonyms: | keep |
| Main Entry: | void |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nullified, meaningless |
| Synonyms: | bad, dead, fruitless, ineffective, ineffectual, inoperative, invalid, nugatory, null, null and void, sterile, unfruitful, unsuccessful, useless, vain, worthless, avoided, forceless, negated, not viable, set aside, unconfirmed, unenforceable, unratified, unsanctioned, voided |
| Antonyms: | full, meaningful, valid |
| Main Entry: | void |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | nullify, cancel |
| Synonyms: | abnegate, abrogate, annul, black out*, cut, discharge, dissolve, drop*, gut*, invalidate, launder, rescind, sanitize, sterilize, trim, vacate, bleep, blue pencil, clean up, declare null and void, take out |
| Antonyms: | allow, permit, sanction, validate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abolish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do away with or put an end to |
| Synonyms: | abate, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, destroy, dissolve, end, eradicate, erase, expunge, extinguish, extirpate, finish, inhibit, invalidate, kill, negate, nix, nullify, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, prohibit, quash, repeal, repudiate, rescind, revoke, scrub*, squelch, stamp out, subvert, supersede, suppress, terminate, undo, vacate, vitiate, void, wipe out, zap*, disestablish, put an end to, put kibosh on, put the kibosh on, set aside |
| Antonyms: | confirm, continue, enact, establish, institute, legalize, promote, ratify, support, uphold |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abrogate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | formally put an end to |
| Synonyms: | abate, abolish, annul, cancel, dissolve, do in*, end, invalidate, knock out*, negate, nix, nullify, quash, reject, renege, repeal, retract, revoke, scrub*, undo, vacate, vitiate, void, finish off*, torpedo* |
| Antonyms: | approve, establish, fix, institute, legalize, ratify, sanction, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abyss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something very deep, usually a feature of land |
| Synonyms: | chasm, crevasse, depth, fissure, gorge, gulf, hole, pit, void, abysm |
| Main Entry: | black hole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abyss |
| Synonyms: | void, great void, supernova, theoretical mass |
| Main Entry: | blank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty space |
| Synonyms: | abyss, cavity, chasm, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, interstice, interval, lacuna, nothingness, nullity, omission, opening, skip, tabula rasa, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, hollowness, nihility, preterition, pretermission, womb |
| Main Entry: | cavity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sunken or decayed area |
| Synonyms: | armpit, atrium, basin, chamber, crater, decay, dent, depression, gap, hole, hollow, pit, pocket, sinus, vacuity, void, bursa, caries, socket |
| Main Entry: | chasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap, abyss |
| Synonyms: | alienation, arroyo, blank, breach, cavity, cleavage, cleft, crater, crevasse, fissure, flume, gorge, gulch, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, omission, opening, oversight, ravine, rent, rift, schism, skip, split, void, yawn, abysm, clough, clove, preterition |
| Antonyms: | closure, junction, juncture |
| Main Entry: | deep space |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outer space |
| Synonyms: | celestial spaces, cosmic space, cosmos, intercosmic space, intergalactic space, interplanetary space, interstellar space, metagalactic space, ocean of emptiness, outer space, region beyond Earth's solar system, the heavens, the universe, the void, the void above |
| Main Entry: | devoid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | empty, wanting |
| Synonyms: | bare, barren, bereft, deficient, destitute, innocent, lacking, needed, vacant, void, without, denuded, free from, sans, unprovided with |
| Antonyms: | complete, filled, full |
| Main Entry: | emit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diffuse, discharge |
| Synonyms: | afford, beam, belch, breathe, drip, eject, emanate, erupt, evacuate, excrete, exhale, expectorate, expel, expend, expire, extrude, exude, give off, gush, issue, jet, let off, loose, ooze, pass, perspire, pour, pronounce, purge, radiate, reek, secrete, shed, shoot, speak, spew, spill, spit, squirt, throw out, transmit, utter, vent, voice, void, vomit, yield, cast out, disembogue, give out, give vent to, send forth, send out |
| Antonyms: | conceal, contain, refrain, repress, suppress, withhold |
| Main Entry: | empty |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove contents |
| Synonyms: | clear, consume, decant, deplete, discharge, disgorge, drain, drink, dump, ebb, eject, escape, evacuate, exhaust, expel, gut, leak, leave, purge, release, run out, tap, unburden, unload, vacate, void, flow out, make void, pour out, rush out, use up |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | excrete |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discharge, usually liquified substance |
| Synonyms: | ejaculate, eject, eliminate, emanate, evacuate, exhale, expel, exude, give off, leak, pass, perspire, produce, remove, secrete, sweat, throw off, urinate, void, defecate, egest, exudate |
| Main Entry: | extinct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dead, obsolete |
| Synonyms: | archaic, asleep, bygone, cold*, deceased, defunct, departed, done for*, ended, fallen, gone, inactive, late, lifeless, lost, out, outmoded, passé, superseded, unknown, vanished, void, abolished, dead and gone, disappeared, doused, exanimate, exterminated, extinguished, no longer known, passed on, snuffed out, terminated, vanquished |
| Antonyms: | alive, existing, extant, living |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | issue, surge, run out |
| Synonyms: | abound, arise, brim, cascade, circulate, continue, course, deluge, discharge, dribble, ebb, emanate, emerge, emit, exude, flood, glide, gurgle, gush, inundate, jet, leak, move, ooze, overflow, pass, percolate, pour, proceed, progress, regurgitate, result, ripple, roll, rush, slide, sluice, spew, spill, splash, spring, spurt, sputter, squirt, stream, sweep, swell, swirl, teem, trickle, tumble, void, disembogue, exudate, pullulate, smooth along, well forth |
| Antonyms: | trickle |
| Main Entry: | gap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, breach |
| Synonyms: | aperture, arroyo, blank, caesura, canyon, chasm, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, defile, difference, disagreement, disparity, divergence, divide, division, fracture, gorge, gulch, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, inconsistency, interlude, intermission, interruption, interstice, interval, lacuna, lull, notch, opening, orifice, pause, ravine, recess, rent, respite, rest, rift, rupture, separation, slit, slot, space, vacuity, void, clove, discontinuity, interspace |
| Antonyms: | closure |
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