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Definitions for Evacuate

[1] to leave empty; vacate.
[2] 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.
[3] to remove persons from (a city, town, building, area, etc.) for reasons of safety: to evacuate the embassy after a bomb threat.
[4] 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).
[5] Physiology . to discharge or eject as through the excretory passages, especially from the bowels.
[6] to deprive: Fear evacuated their minds of reason.
[7] to produce a vacuum in.
[8] to leave a place because of military or other threats.
[9] to void; defecate.
[10] (also intr) to withdraw or cause to withdraw from (a place of danger) to a place of greater safety
[11] to make empty by removing the contents of
[12] (also intr) physiol to eliminate or excrete (faeces); defecate to discharge (any waste product) from (a part of the body)
[13] (tr) to create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel, etc)

Words related to Evacuate

depart, expel, displace, remove, leave, vacate, withdraw, abandon, discharge, desert, relinquish, quit, hightail, eject, decamp, forsake

Words nearby Evacuate

euxine, euxine sea, ev, eva, evacuant, evacuate, evacuation, evacuator, evacuee, evade, evadne

Origin of Evacuate

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin ēvacuātus (past participle of ēvacuāre to empty out, equivalent to ē- e-1 + vacuāre to empty); see vacuum, -ate1

Other words from Evacuate

re·e·vac·u·ate , verb, re·e·vac·u·at·ed, re·e·vac·u·at·ing.
un·e·vac·u·at·ed , adjective

Word origin for Evacuate

C16: from Latin ēvacuāre to void, from vacuus empty

Synonyms for Evacuate

abandon, depart, desert, discharge, displace, expel, leave, move out, pull out, remove, vacate, withdraw, decamp, eject, forsake, hightail, quit, relinquish, bail out, cut out, pack up, run for the hills, skidaddle