voiding

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the bodily process of discharging waste matter
verb declare invalid
verb clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something

But is there anything delightful in comparison of this sudden change, when from an excessive pain, I come, by the voiding of a stone, to recover, as by a flash of lightning, the beautiful light of health, so free and full, as it happens in our sudden and sharpest colics? — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne
"[330] Yet is it difficult and by no means easy to avoid and bring to a close an unpleasant friendship: as in the case of food which is injurious and harmful, we cannot retain it on the stomach without damage and hurt, nor can we expel it as it was taken into the mouth, but only in a putrid mixed up and changed form, so a bad friend is troublesome both to others and himself if retained, and if he be got rid of forcibly it is with hostility and hatred, and like the voiding of bile. — Plutarch's Morals, Plutarch

elimination, evacuation, excretion, excreting

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