VOIDANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does voidance mean? 

• VOIDANCE (noun)
  The noun VOIDANCE has 1 sense:

1. the act of removing the contents of something

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOIDANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of removing the contents of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

emptying; evacuation; voidance

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

remotion; removal (the act of removing)

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

drain; drainage (emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it)

Derivation:

void (excrete or discharge from the body)

 Context examples 

The body system that includes all organs involved in reproduction and in the formation and voidance of urine.

(Genitourinary system, NCI Thesaurus)