Word Meanings - DEVOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To empty out; to remove.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEVOID)

• Empty
• Vacant
• void
• clear
• unencumbered
• unobstructed
• unoccupied
• waste
• uninhabited
• unfrequented
• devoid
• vacuous
• destitute
• unulled
• unfurnished
• untenanted
• evacuated
• deficient
• weak
• Billy
• idle
• senseless

Related words: (words related to DEVOID)

• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• BILLY GOAT
  A male goat.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• VACANTLY
  In a vacant manner; inanely.
• DEFICIENT
  Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• EVACUATION
  1. The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging. Specifically: Withdrawal of troops from a town, fortress, etc. Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• VACUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being vacuous; emptiness; vacuity. W. Montagu.
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• EVACUATIVE
  Serving of tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative.
• WASTEFUL
  1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
• UNENCUMBER
  To free from incumbrance; to disencumber.
• EMPTYING
  The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (more info) 1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl.
• CLEAR-SEEING
  Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
• CLEARCOLE
  A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.
• BILLYCOCK; BILLYCOCK HAT
  A round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake. "The undignified billycocks and pantaloons of the West." B. H. Chamberlain. Little acquiesced, and Ransome disguised him in a beard, and a loose set of clothes, and a billicock hat. Charles Reade.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• FOREWASTE
  See GASCOIGNE