资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Voiding \Void"ing\, a.
   Receiving what is ejected or voided. ``How in our voiding
   lobby hast thou stood?'' --Shak.

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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

voiding
     n : the bodily process of discharging waste matter [syn: {elimination},
          {evacuation}, {excretion}, {excreting}]