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verb

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

1.

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."

2.

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."

3.

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.

1.

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

2.

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

... grinding it this night, for the folk are impatient for their flour." Then he filled the hoppers with grain and going up to my brother, with a rope in his hand, bound him to the yoke and said to him, "Come, turn the mill! Thou thinkest of nothing but eating and voiding." Then he took a whip and laid on to my brother, who began to weep and cry out; but none came to his aid, and he was forced to grind the wheat till near daylight, when the husband came in and seeing him yoked to ...

— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume I • Anonymous

... 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 expulsion ...

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

... in this session were these:—An act for voiding all the elections of parliament men, at which the elected had been at any expense in meat, drink, ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... consumption of food involves voiding of the surplus, which seems unsuitable to the state of innocence. Therefore it seems that man did not take food ...

— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

... Beckmesser, "everything becomes clear to me!" He jumps, hearing Sachs at the door, and stuffs the paper into his pocket. Sachs, in his handsome best-coat, meets him pleasantly. "You surely are not having any more trouble with the shoes?" Beckmesser's wrath holds in but a moment before voiding itself upon Sachs in accusation and threat. "Be sure, friend Sachs, I know you now!... That I may not stand in your way, you go so far even as to incite the mob to riot.... You have always been my enemy.... Now hear, whether I see through you. The maiden whom I have chosen, ...

— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall

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