evacuate

English

Etymology

From Latin evacuare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/
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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
    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.
    • 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:
      In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; [...]
  6. To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
    to evacuate a contract or marriage

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

evacuate

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

Participle

evacuate f pl

  1. feminine plural of evacuato

Adjective

evacuate f pl

  1. feminine plural of evacuato

Noun

evacuate f pl

  1. plural of evacuata

References

  1. evacuo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Latin

Verb

ēvacuāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēvacuō

Spanish

Verb

evacuate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of evacuar combined with te
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