evacuate

verb

1. 1

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

   The soldiers evacuated the fortress.

   The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.

   The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.

2. 2

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

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

   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.

3. 3

   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.

4. 4

   figurativeTo make empty; to deprive.

   Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important doctrines.

5. 5

   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; [...]

6. 6

   To make void; to nullify; to vacate.

   to evacuate a contract or marriage

   it would not evacuate a marriage after cohabitation and actual consummation

Forms

past tense

evacuated

past participle

evacuated

present participle

evacuating

third person singular

evacuates