Definition of "evacuate"

evacuate

/ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/

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third-person singular simple present evacuates, present participle evacuating, simple past and past participle evacuated
1. (transitive) To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from
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  The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.
  1757, Edmund Burke, The Abridgement of the History of England
2. To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
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  Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.
  1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 327
3. To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
4. (figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
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  Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important doctrines.
  1825, James Marsh, Preliminary Essay to Aids to Reflection
5. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
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  In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; [...]
  1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization‎, Edinburgh, London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 1
6. To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
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  it would not evacuate a marriage after cohabitation and actual consummation
  1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret

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