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.
[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.]
void′er n.
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voiding
(ˈvɔɪdɪŋ)n
(Medicine) med the discharging of waste matter from the body
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| Noun | 1. |  voiding - the bodily process of discharging waste matterdefecation, laxation - 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 |
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