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VOIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does voiding mean? 

VOIDING (noun)
  The noun VOIDING has 1 sense:

1. the bodily process of discharging waste matterplay

  Familiarity information: VOIDING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VOIDING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The bodily process of discharging waste matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

elimination; evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding

Hypernyms ("voiding" is a kind of...):

discharge; emission; expelling (any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "voiding"):

defecation; laxation; shitting (the elimination of fecal waste through the anus)

incontinence; incontinency (involuntary urination or defecation)

micturition; urination (the discharge of urine)

Derivation:

void (excrete or discharge from the body)


 Context examples 


They include urinary frequency and urgency, dysuria, nocturia, incomplete voiding, and poor stream during urination.

(Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms, NCI Thesaurus)



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