- to leave empty; vacate.
- to remove (persons or things) from a place, as a dangerous place or disaster area, for reasons of safety or protection: to evacuate the inhabitants of towns in the path of a flood.
- to remove persons from (a city, town, building, area, etc.) for reasons of safety: to evacuate the embassy after a bomb threat.
- Military.
- to remove (troops, wounded soldiers, civilians, etc.) from a war zone, combat area, etc.
- to withdraw from or quit (a town, fort, etc., that has been occupied).
- to discharge or eject as through the excretory passages, especially from the bowels.
- to deprive: Fear evacuated their minds of reason.
- to produce a vacuum in.
- to withdraw or cause to withdraw from (a place of danger) to a place of greater safety
- to make empty by removing the contents of
- (also intr) physiol
- to eliminate or excrete (faeces); defecate
- to discharge (any waste product) from (a part of the body)
- to create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel, etc)
