Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of one who or that which voids.
- noun That which is voided; a remnant; a fragment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of one who, or that which, voids.
- noun rare That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment.
- noun a knife used for gathering up fragments of food to put them into a voider.
- adjective Receiving what is ejected or voided.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
void . - noun The act by which something is
voided , asurination .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the bodily process of discharging waste matter
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Examples
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On one hand, the Canada Border Services Agency said this morning it is working to issue the Toronto woman travel documents, tacitly admitting that Canadian authorities made a mistake in voiding her passport in Nairobi, Kenya, nearly three months ago.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Dysfunctional voiding is not usually caused by emotional factors, but it can take an emotional toll on children and their families.
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Types of urethral catheters for management of short-term voiding problems in hospitalized adults: a short version Cochrane review
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Actually, other than Jim Keene the orderly, carrying in the newest bunches of flowers for Betty, and the couple of doctors and nurses coming and going so businesslike throughout the day, mostly to wiggle Betty’s limbs and ask me embarrassing questions about what they called voiding, there was no sign that there was anyone else in the world.
Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996
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Actually, other than Jim Keene the orderly, carrying in the newest bunches of flowers for Betty, and the couple of doctors and nurses coming and going so businesslike throughout the day, mostly to wiggle Betty’s limbs and ask me embarrassing questions about what they called voiding, there was no sign that there was anyone else in the world.
Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996
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Actually, other than Jim Keene the orderly, carrying in the newest bunches of flowers for Betty, and the couple of doctors and nurses coming and going so businesslike throughout the day, mostly to wiggle Betty’s limbs and ask me embarrassing questions about what they called voiding, there was no sign that there was anyone else in the world.
Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996
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Tsai recently raised the idea of voiding the anti-corruption clause again.
Farmers Associations and Rural Politics Michael Turton 2007
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But Democratic House Minority Leader David Litvack of Salt Lake City calls voiding the fee an attempt by state government to usurp local governmental control.
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One of the worst parts of the idea of voiding CDS trades is that they may have been used for many kinds of hedges, not just the obvious ones involving the underlying debt.
Minyanville 2009
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If the AG believes the Court was wrong in its decision to grant the divorce instead of "voiding" the marriage, declaring it never existed, Mr. Abbott should use the traditional appeal on merits.
Barbara Ann Radnofsky: AG's Big Legal Error in Gay Divorce Barbara Ann Radnofsky 2010
bilby commented on the word voiding
A lovely medical euphemism.
November 2, 2009