Evacuate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To empty or remove the contents of.
  • v. To create a vacuum in.
  • v. To excrete or discharge waste matter from (the bowel, for example).
  • v. To relinquish military possession or occupation of (a town, for example).
  • v. To withdraw or send away (troops or inhabitants) from a threatened area.
  • v. To withdraw or depart from; vacate.
  • verb-intransitive. To withdraw from or vacate a place or area, especially as a protective measure.
  • verb-intransitive. To excrete waste matter from the body.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.
  • v. To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
  • v. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of.
  • v. Fig.: To make empty; to deprive.
  • v. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
  • v. To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.
  • v. To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
  • verb-intransitive. To let blood.
  • verb-intransitive. to expel stool from the bowels; to defecate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make empty; cause to be emptied; free from anything contained: as, to evacuate a vessel; to evacuate the stomach by an emetic.
  • Hence To leave empty; vacate; depart from; quit: as, the enemy evacuated the place.
  • To make void or empty of something essential; deprive; strip.
  • To make void; nullify; make of no effect; vacate: as, to evacuate a marriage or a contract.
  • To void; discharge; eject: as, to evacuate excrementitious matter.
  • To produce an evacuation, as by letting blood.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. move out of an unsafe location into safety
  • v. move people from their homes or country
  • v. create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)
  • v. excrete or discharge from the body
  • v. empty completely
  • Verb Form
    evacuated    evacuates    evacuating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    move    displace    empty   
    Cross Reference
    leaven   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    deprive    remove    eject    void    quit    nullify    vacate    defecate