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English

Etymology

From Old French evacuation, from Late Latin ?vacu?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??vækju?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

evacuation (countable and uncountable, plural evacuations)

1. The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.
2. Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, fortress, etc.
3. The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
4. Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
5. That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.

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6. Abolition; nullification.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     evacuation of all Romish ceremonies

Derived terms

Related terms

• evacuee
• evacuate
• evacuation slide

Translations

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?vacu?ti?.

Noun

evacuation f (oblique plural evacuations, nominative singular evacuation, nominative plural evacuations)

1. (medicine) evacuation (of the bowels)

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?