Void and Off

noun

• The state of nonexistence.
  • synonyms: nothingness, nullity, nihility
• An empty area or space.
  • usage: "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum"
  • synonyms: vacancy, emptiness, vacuum

verb

• Declare invalid.
  • usage: "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
  • synonyms: invalidate, annul, quash, avoid, nullify
• Clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle. of something)
  • usage: "The chemist voided the glass bottle"; "The concert hall was voided of the audience"
• Take away the legal force of or render ineffective.
  • usage: "invalidate a contract"
  • synonyms: invalidate, vitiate
• Excrete or discharge from the body.
  • synonyms: evacuate, empty

adjective

• Lacking any legal or binding force.
  • usage: "null and void"
  • synonyms: null
• Containing nothing.
  • usage: "the earth was without form, and void"

• (a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.
• (a.) Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
• (a.) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.
• (a.) Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning or of common use.
• (n.) An empty space; a vacuum.
• (a.) To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify.
• (a.) Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
• (a.) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.
• (v.i.) To be emitted or evacuated.
• (a.) To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements.
• (a.) Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

Having no legal force or binding effect; a nullity; not enforceable. A' void' agreement is no contract at all. A void contract need not be disaffirmed, nor can it be ratified. A contract for an illegal purpose (for example, gambling) is void. A voidable contract is one that is able to be voided. Voidable implies a valid act that may be rejected by an act of disaffirmance, rather than an invalid act that may be confirmed. For example, if a minor contracts to buy a diamond ring, the contract can be voided by the minor because of lack of sufficient age. If, however, the minor elects to enforce the contract, the contract is valid and the other party cannot assert the minor's lack of age as a defense.

verb

• Kill intentionally and with premeditation.
  • usage: "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
  • synonyms: murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, polish off, remove

adjective

• Not in operation or operational.
  • usage: "the oven is off"; "the lights are off"
• Below a satisfactory level.
  • usage: "an off year for tennis"; "his performance was off"
• Of events. ( no longer planned or scheduled)
  • usage: "the wedding is definitely off"
  • synonyms: cancelled
• In an unpalatable state.
  • usage: "sour milk"
  • synonyms: sour, turned
• Not performing or scheduled for duties.
  • usage: "He's off every Tuesday"

adverb

• From a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete. )
  • usage: "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach"
  • synonyms: away, forth
• At a distance in space or time)
  • usage: "the boat was 5 miles off (or away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away. "; "away back in the 18th century"
  • synonyms: away
• No longer on or in contact or attached.
  • usage: "clean off the dirt"; "he shaved off his mustache"

• (adv.) Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.
• (n.) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.
• (interj.) Away; begone; -- a command to depart.
• (prep.) Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore.
• (a.) On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse or ox; the off leg.
• (adv.) In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:.
• (adv.) Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.
• (adv.) Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off.
• (adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
• (adv.) Denoting opposition or negation.
• (a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics.