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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  Void  anon  her  place  --Chaucer. 
 
  If  they  will  fight  with  us  bid  them  come  down  Or 
  void  the  field.  --Shak. 
 
  2.  To  throw  or  send  out  to  evacuate;  to  emit;  to  discharge; 
  as  to  void  excrements. 
 
  A  watchful  application  of  mind  in  voiding 
  prejudices.  --Barrow. 
 
  With  shovel,  like  a  fury,  voided  out  The  earth  and 
  scattered  bones.  --J.  Webster. 
 
  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  --Bp.  Burnet. 
 
  It  was  become  a  practice  .  .  .  to  void  the  security 
  that  was  at  any  time  given  for  money  so  borrowed. 
  --Clarendon. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Voiding  \Void"ing\,  a. 
  Receiving  what  is  ejected  or  voided.  ``How  in  our  voiding 
  lobby  hast  thou  stood?''  --Shak. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Voiding  \Void"ing\,  n. 
  1.  The  act  of  one  who  or  that  which  v?ids.  --Bp.  Hall. 
 
  2.  That  which  is  voided;  that  which  is  ejected  or  evacuated; 
  a  remnant;  a  fragment.  [R.]  --Rowe. 
 
  {Voiding  knife},  a  knife  used  for  gathering  up  fragments  of 
  food  to  put  them  into  a  voider. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  voiding 
  n  :  the  bodily  process  of  discharging  waste  matter  [syn:  {elimination}, 
  {evacuation},  {excretion},  {excreting}]




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