allow vs void

allow

verb
  • To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. 

  • To not bar or obstruct. 

  • To render physically possible. 

  • To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. 

  • To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. 

  • To grant license to; to permit; to consent to. 

  • To take into account by making an allowance. 

  • To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request). 

void

verb
  • To make invalid or worthless. 

  • To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge. 

  • To empty. 

adj
  • That does not return a value; a procedure. 

  • Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled. 

  • Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc. 

  • Being without; destitute; devoid. 

  • Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul. 

  • Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain. 

  • Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification. 

noun
  • An empty place; A location that has nothing useful. 

  • An empty space; a vacuum. 

  • A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice. 

  • A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation. 

  • An extended region of space containing no galaxies. 

  • An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade. 

  • A black cat. 

How often have the words allow and void occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )