From obsolete Middle English verb devoiden, from Old French desvuidier (“to empty out”) (compare French dévider).

devoid (not comparable)

Completely without; having none of.

Synonyms: empty, vacant

I went searching for a knife, but the kitchen was devoid of anything sharper than a spoon.

Derived terms
devoidness

Translations
empty, completely without

Verb
devoid (third-person singular simple present devoids, present participle devoiding, simple past and past participle devoided)

(obsolete) To empty out; to remove.

devoidness (uncountable)

The state or condition of being devoid.

dévider

to put (string) into a ball
to unwind, spool, reel
(figuratively) to recount, to reel off (a story)

Conjugation of dévider (see also Appendix:French verbs)

Derived terms
dévidage

Pictorial illustration of the optical action of a q-plate with q = 0.5 on an input left circularly polarized plane wave. The output beam is a right circularly polarized helical mode with OAM given by m = 1. The dark blue sticks on the q-plate depict the local LC directors. The circular arrows denote the polarization handedness from the point of view of the source. z indicates the light propagation direction and x is the polar axis.