evacuate

From Latin evacuare.

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/

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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

   the soldiers evacuated the fortress

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

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

     The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.

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

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

   • 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 327:

     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. 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. (figurative) 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.

   to evacuate a contract or marriage

   • 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, OCLC 1086746628:

     it would not evacuate a marriage after cohabitation and actual consummation

• self-evacuate

• evacuation (noun)

• → Cebuano: bakwit
  • → English: bakwit
• → Tagalog: ebak

• IPA^(key): /e.vaˈkwa.te/, (traditional) /e.va.kuˈa.te/[1]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: e‧va‧cuà‧te, (traditional) e‧va‧cu‧à‧te

evacuate

1. inflection of evacuare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

evacuate f pl

1. feminine plural of evacuato

evacuate f pl

1. feminine plural of evacuato

evacuate f pl

1. plural of evacuata

ēvacuāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēvacuō