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Evacuate

//ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from. transitive

    "The soldiers evacuated the fortress."

  2. 2
    excrete or discharge from the body wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.

    "The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street."

  4. 4
    remove content from wordnet
  5. 5
    To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.

    "The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen."

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  1. 6
    create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel) wordnet
  2. 7
    To make empty; to deprive. figuratively

    "Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important doctrines."

  3. 8
    move out of an unsafe location into safety wordnet
  4. 9
    To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bladder or the bowels (to stool).

    "In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; [...]"

  5. 10
    move people from their homes or country wordnet
  6. 11
    To make void; to nullify; to vacate.

    "to evacuate a contract or marriage"

Etymology

First attested in 1526; borrowed from Latin ēvacuātus, the perfect passive participle of ēvacuō (“to empty out, evacuate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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