void
noun/vɔɪd/
/vɔɪd/
[usually singular] (formal or literary)- a large empty space
- Below him was nothing but a black void.
- She sat staring into the void, emptying her mind of all thoughts.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- deep
- great
- …
- create
- leave
- fill
- …
- a feeling of being empty, caused by the loss of somebody/something
- The void left by his mother's death was never filled.
- It seemed that nothing could fill the aching black void left by Rachel’s death.
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.
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