voiding

void

V0137700 (void)adj.1. Containing no matter; empty.2. Not occupied; unfilled.3. Completely lacking; devoid: void of understanding. See Synonyms at empty.4. Ineffective; useless.5. Having no legal force or validity; null: a contract rendered void.6. Games Lacking cards of a particular suit in a dealt hand.n.1. a. An empty space.b. A vacuum.2. An open space or a break in continuity; a gap.3. A feeling or state of emptiness, loneliness, or loss.4. Games Absence of cards of a particular suit in a dealt hand: a void in hearts.v. void·ed, void·ing, voids v.tr.1. To take out (the contents of something); empty.2. To excrete (body wastes).3. To leave; vacate.4. To make void or of no validity; invalidate: issued a new passport and voided the old one.v.intr. To excrete body wastes.

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[Middle English, from Old French voide, feminine of voit, from Vulgar Latin *vocitus, alteration of Latin vacīvus, vocīvus, variant of vacuus, from vacāre, to be empty; see euə- in Indo-European roots.]

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void′er n.

voiding

(ˈvɔɪdɪŋ) n (Medicine) med the discharging of waste matter from the body

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voiding - the bodily process of discharging waste matterexcreting, excretion, elimination, evacuationdefecation, laxation, shitting - the elimination of fecal waste through the anusexpelling, discharge, emission - any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body; "the discharge of pus"incontinence, incontinency - involuntary urination or defecationmicturition, urination - the discharge of urine