From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Void \Void\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Voided}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Voiding}.] [OF. voidier, vuidier. See {Void}, a.]
1. To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or
empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.
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Void anon her place. --Chaucer.
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If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
Or void the field. --Shak.
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2. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge;
as, to void excrements.
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A watchful application of mind in voiding
prejudices. --Barrow.
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With shovel, like a fury, voided out
The earth and scattered bones. --J. Webster.
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3. To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to
vacate; to annul; to nullify.
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After they had voided the obligation of the oath he
had taken. --Bp. Burnet.
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It was become a practice . . . to void the security
that was at any time given for money so borrowed.
--Clarendon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Voiding \Void"ing\, n.
1. The act of one who, or that which, voids. --Bp. Hall.
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2. That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated;
a remnant; a fragment. [R.] --Rowe.
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{Voiding knife}, a knife used for gathering up fragments of
food to put them into a voider.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Voiding \Void"ing\, a.
Receiving what is ejected or voided. "How in our voiding
lobby hast thou stood?" --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
voiding
n 1: the bodily process of discharging waste matter [syn:
{elimination}, {evacuation}, {excretion}, {excreting},
{voiding}]
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