Voiding

void  (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 vacvus, vocvus, variant of vacuus, from vacre, to be empty; see eu- in Indo-European roots.]

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voider n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

voiding - the bodily process of discharging waste matter excreting, excretion, elimination, evacuation defecation, laxation, shitting - the elimination of fecal waste through the anus expelling, discharge, emission - any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body; "the discharge of pus" incontinence, incontinency - involuntary urination or defecation micturition, urination - the discharge of urine