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verb (used with object)
1.
to leave empty; vacate.
2.
to remove (persons or things) from a place, as a dangerous place or disaster area, for reasons of safety or protection: to evacuate the inhabitants of towns in the path of a flood.
3.
to remove persons from (a city, town, building, area, etc.) for reasons of safety: to evacuate the embassy after a bomb threat.
4.
Military.
a.
to remove (troops, wounded soldiers, civilians, etc.) from a war zone, combat area, etc.
b.
to withdraw from or quit (a town, fort, etc., that has been occupied).
5.
EXPANDPhysiology. to discharge or eject as through the excretory passages, especially from the bowels.
verb (used without object)
8.
to leave a place because of military or other threats.
9.
to void; defecate.
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Word Origin & History
evacuate
c.1400 (implied in evacuation), from L. evacuatus, pp. of evacuare "empty," used by Pliny in reference to the bowels, used figuratively in L.L. for "clear out," from ex- "out" + vacuus "empty." Earliest sense in English is medical. Meaning "remove inhabitants to safer ground" is from 1934. Related: Evacuated;
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evacuate e·vac·u·ate (ĭ-vāk'y&oomacr;-āt')
v. e·vac·u·at·ed, e·vac·u·at·ing, e·vac·u·ates
To empty or remove the contents of.
To excrete or discharge waste matter, especially of the bowels.
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