make+void

  • 91avoid — [14] Avoid at first meant literally ‘make void, empty’. It was formed in Old French from the adjective vuide ‘empty’ (source of English void [13], and derived from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *vocitus, which is related ultimately to vacant). With …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 92discharge — v unload, unburden, disburden, free, relieve, remove. 2. fire off, shoot, detonate, explode, burst; let off, let fly, set off; deliver a charge, give vent to. 3. emit, pour forth, send forth, send out, eject; gush, disembogue, cast forth; void,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 93repeal — v 1. revoke, rescind, abrogate; annul, disannul, nullify, abolish, declare null and void, void, make void; quash, invalidate, vacate, set aside; recant, retract, withdraw, disavow, recall, abjure; countermand, counterorder, overrule, override;… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 94revoke — v 1. rescind, abrogate, repeal; annul, disannul, nullify, abolish, declare null and void, void, make void; quash, invalidate, vacate, disenact, cancel, set aside; veto, negate; reverse, change sides. 2. recant, retract, withdraw; take back, call… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 95empty — [adj1] containing nothing abandoned, bare, barren, blank, clear, dead, deflated, depleted, desert, deserted, desolate, despoiled, destitute, devoid, dry, evacuated, exhausted, forsaken, godforsaken*, hollow, lacking, stark, unfilled, unfurnished …

    New thesaurus

  • 96vacate — To annul or set aside. To cease the occupancy of premises, leaving them empty. To vacate, in its English form, has acquired an active sense through a long period of transition, by popular usage and in consequence of its early adoption as a… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 97avoid — [14] Avoid at first meant literally ‘make void, empty’. It was formed in Old French from the adjective vuide ‘empty’ (source of English void [13], and derived from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *vocitus, which is related ultimately to vacant). With …

    Word origins

  • 98do — v 1. perform, execute, Scot, and North Eng. Obs. gar, discharge, carry out, fulfill, realize; succeed in, manage, bring off, Sl. pull off, Inf. put over, U.S. Sl. swing, U.S. Sl. cut, U.S. Sl. hack; engineer, negotiate, work out; bring about,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 99JOB, BOOK OF — (named for its hero (Heb. אִיּוֹב), ancient South Arabian and Thamudic yʾb; Old Babylonian Ayyābum, Tell el Amarna tablet, no. 256, line 6, A ia ab; either from yʾb, to bear ill will or compounded of ay where? and ʾab (divine) father ), one of… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 100Antiquate — An ti*quate, v. t. [L. antiquatus, p. p. of antiquare, fr. antiquus ancient.] To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate. [1913 Webster] Christianity might… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English