English-Spanish translations for devoid

• vacío
  Señor Presidente, los principios del desarrollo sostenible se están convirtiendo lamentablemente en un discurso vacío de contenido. Mr President, regrettably the principle of 'sustainable development' is becoming devoid of meaning.
  Los demás escaños están también excepcionalmente vacíos de representantes de los Estados miembros esta mañana. The other benches are also exceptionally devoid of representative of the Member States this morning.
  Podría reprocharse a la Comisión, efectivamente, que quizá prefiere un sector de IT vacío de contenidos. The Commission could be open to the accusation, indeed, that perhaps it prefers an IT sector devoid of content.
• desprovisto
  Para el contribuyente individual, solo existe en el papel y es un mero espejismo desprovisto de sustancia. For the individual taxpayer, it exists solely on paper and is a mere mirage, devoid of substance.
  No obstante, debemos ser prudentes, porque, visto así de escueto, desprovisto de toda estrategia ambiciosa, este eslogan es peligroso. We need to be careful though, as, put baldly like this, devoid of any ambitious strategy, this slogan is dangerous.
  Han sufrido la peor represión posible por parte de un régimen que ya estaba desprovisto de toda legitimidad y que, ese día, perdió toda su dignidad. They have suffered the worst possible repression by a regime that was already devoid of all legitimacy and which, that day, lost all dignity.

Definition of devoid

• empty; having none of; completely without
• To empty out; to remove

Examples

• I went searching for a knife, but the kitchen was devoid of anything sharper than a spoon
• The child will devoid the garbage after he devours his sandwich.

Related words

• devoice
• devoiced
• devoid of
• final devoicing
• terminal devoicing
• final obstruent devoicing