evacuate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   empty completely

   evacuate the bottle

2. 2
   verb

   move out of an unsafe location into safety

   After the earthquake, residents were evacuated

3. 3
   verb

   To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.

   The soldiers evacuated the fortress.

4. 4
   verb

   To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.

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

5. 5
   verb

   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.

6. 6
   verb

   To make empty; to deprive.

   Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important doctrines.

7. 7
   verb

   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; [...]

8. 8
   verb

   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).