(in bridge and whist) having been dealt no cards in a particular suit.
n.
a completely empty space.
▸an unfilled space in a wall, building, or structure.
(in bridge and whist) a suit in which a player is dealt no cards.
v.
discharge or drain away (water, gases, etc.).
▸chiefly Medicine excrete (waste matter).
▸
[usu. as adj.voided]
empty or evacuate (a container or space).
chiefly N. Amer. declare to be not valid or legally binding.
[as adj.voided]
Heraldry (of a bearing) having the central area cut away so as to show the field.
Derivative
voidableadj.
voidnessn.
Etymology
ME (in the sense ‘unoccupied’): from a dial. var. of OFr. vuide; rel. to L. vacare ‘vacate’; the verb partly a shortening of avoid, reinforced by OFr. voider.