different between evacuate vs emaciate

English

Etymology

From Latin evacuare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??væk.ju.e?t/

Verb

evacuate (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
   • 1757, Edmund Burke, The Abridgement of the History of England

     The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.

2. To cause to leave or withdraw from.

3. To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.

4. (figuratively) To make empty; to deprive.
   • 1825, James Marsh, Preliminary Essay to Aids to Reflection

     Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important doctrines.

5. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
6. To make void; to nullify; to vacate.

   • it would not evacuate a marriage after cohabitation and actual consummation

Derived terms

• self-evacuate

Related terms

• evacuation (noun)

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: bakwit
  • ? English: bakwit

Translations

Italian

Verb

evacuate

1. second-person plural present indicative of evacuare
2. second-person plural imperative of evacuare
3. feminine plural of evacuato

Latin

Verb

?vacu?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ?vacu?

English

Etymology

From Latin emaciare (“to make lean, cause to waste away”), from ex- (“out”) + macies (“leanness”), from macer (“thin”).

Pronunciation

Verb

emaciate (third-person singular simple present emaciates, present participle emaciating, simple past and past participle emaciated)

1. (transitive) To make extremely thin or wasted.
2. (intransitive) To become extremely thin or wasted.

Derived terms

• emaciated
• emaciation

Related terms

• meager

See also

• gaunt

Translations

Further reading

• emaciate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• emaciate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “emaciate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Adjective

emaciate (comparative more emaciate, superlative most emaciate)

1. emaciated

Italian

Adjective

emaciate

1. feminine plural of emaciato