voiding

Pluralvoidings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of void. Use it after is or was, or as a noun for the action.

   The manager is voiding the check because the amount was wrong.

   The nurse asked if the patient was voiding normally after the surgery.

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   The act of emptying something out or canceling it, for example passing urine.

   The nurse wrote down the time of each voiding.

   The voiding of the old contract came as a surprise.

   Similarannulment, cancellation, urination, discharge

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   Something thrown out or left over, like scraps from a meal.

   Oh! bestow Some poor Remain, the voiding of thy Table, A Morsel to support my famish'd soul

   1714, Nicholas Rowe, The Tragedy of Jane ShoreHere, voiding means leftover scraps cleared from the table.

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