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Evacuate   /ɪvˈækjəˌeɪt/  /ivˈækjəˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Evacuate  v. t.  (past & past part. evacuated; pres. part. evacuating)  
1.
To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
2.
Fig.: To make empty; to deprive. (R.) "Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important meaning."
3.
To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
4.
To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress. "The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country."
5.
To make void; to nullify; to vacate; as, to evacuate a contract or marriage. (Obs.)


Evacuate  v. i.  
1.
To let blood (Obs.)
2.
To expel stool from the bowels; to defecate.





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"Evacuate" Quotes from Famous Books



... troops shall evacuate Portugal with their arms and baggage; they shall not be considered as prisoners of war; and, on their arrival in France, they shall ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
... concentration of great numbers of laborers at the needed points, huge earthworks arose like magic before the astonished allies. They made no headway; their efforts were in vain; the enterprise had failed. It became necessary to evacuate the Crimea, or undertake a slow winter siege in the presence of superior forces, amid difficulties which had not been anticipated, and for which no adequate provision had ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume X • John Lord
... infantry, advanced from Milan with an army of thirty thousand men, and passing the mountains, prepared to throw a bridge over the Rhine, in the neighborhood of Basil. It was reasonable to expect that the Alemanni, pressed on either side by the Roman arms, would soon be forced to evacuate the provinces of Gaul, and to hasten to the defence of their native country. But the hopes of the campaign were defeated by the incapacity, or the envy, or the secret instructions, of Barbatio; who acted as if he had been the ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon
... more opened, and nature by that meanes made more fit and apt for the expulsion of it. During which time it will be very requisite to apply hot cloathes to the stomack: but not so as to provoke sweat. Or else, to cause it to voyd and evacuate either by urine, stoole, or sweat, exercise will be a good helpe and furtherance: if the party be fit for it. But if neither of these will prevaile, then a sharp glyster ought to ...
— Spadacrene Anglica - The English Spa Fountain • Edmund Deane
... resemblance to that of Harrogate, and is good in bilious, scrofulous and cutaneous complaints. On our return to the hotel we learned the news of the capitulation of Paris to the Allied powers. It is said to be purely a military convention by which the French army is to evacuate Paris and retire behind the Loire. There is no talk and no other intelligence about Napoleon, except that he had been compelled by the two Houses of Legislature to abdicate the throne. We are still ...
— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye


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