Evacuate

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To withdraw or depart from; vacate.
  • intransitive verb. To withdraw or send away (troops or inhabitants) from a threatened area.
  • intransitive verb. To relinquish military possession or occupation of (a town, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To excrete or discharge waste matter from (the bowel, for example).
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To empty or remove the contents of (a closed space or container).
  • intransitive verb. To empty or remove (fluid, for example) from a closed space or container.
  • intransitive verb. To create a vacuum in.
  • intransitive verb. To withdraw from or vacate a place or area, especially as a protective measure.
  • intransitive verb. To excrete waste matter from the body.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To let blood.
  • intransitive verb. to expel stool from the bowels; to defecate.
  • transitive verb. To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of.
  • transitive verb. Fig.: To make empty; to deprive.
  • transitive verb. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
  • transitive verb. To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.
  • transitive verb. To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.
  • verb. To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
  • verb. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. move out of an unsafe location into safety
  • verb. move people from their homes or country
  • verb. create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)
  • verb. excrete or discharge from the body
  • verb. empty completely
  • Word Usage
    "With them were four family members of those who died in the terrorist attacks, including Maggie Lemagne, whose brother David was a police officer killed while helping people evacuate from the burning towers."
    cross-reference
    leaven  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    displace  empty  move  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form