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/vˈɔɪdɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Void v. t. (past & past part. voided; pres. part. voiding)

To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table. "Void anon her place." "If they will fight with us, bid them come down, Or void the field."

To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements. "A watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices." "With shovel, like a fury, voided out The earth and scattered bones."

To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify. "After they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken." "It was become a practice... to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed."

Void v. i. To be emitted or evacuated.

noun

Voiding n.

The act of one who, or that which, voids.

That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment. (R.)

Voiding knife, a knife used for gathering up fragments of food to put them into a voider.

adjective

Voiding adj. Receiving what is ejected or voided. "How in our voiding lobby hast thou stood?"

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Etymology of 'Voiding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Voiding" Quotes from Famous Books

... on, when about six months before his death, during a paroxysm of cough, he expectorated a mouthful of thick black matter, and continued so to do periodically, at intervals of about three weeks, seeming to experience relief after voiding the carbonaceous sputum. ...

— An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis • Archibald Makellar

... you mean, firstly by "voided," and, secondly, by "other meats." Suppose any "meat" (I take the word to include drink) to contain no indigestible residuum, there need not be anything "voided" at all—if by "voiding" is meant ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley