evacuatev.
/ɪˈvakjuːeɪt/ I. To make empty.
* To remove the contents of.† 2. To clear (a place) of inmates, etc., (a country) of inhabitants, troops, wild beasts. Const. of.
1. † d. reflexive and intransitive for reflexive. Of a body of water, etc.: To empty, discharge itself. Also figurative. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To empty, clear out the contents of (a vessel or receptacle). Chiefly in uses more or less technical: To empty (the stomach, bowels, or other bodily organ); to deplete (the body) by purging or vomiting (formerly also by bleeding, sudorifics, etc.); to exhaust (of air).
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excrete [verb (transitive)] > empty bodily organ
voida1425
evacuate1542
exonerate1542
ush1887
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [verb (transitive)]
shita1382
to defy out1382
deliver?a1425
cack1485
evacuate1542
scour1577
shoot1594
foil1599
exstercorate1609
to dung outa1642
move1645
cast1704
to do one's doings1957
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (transitive)] > vomit
spew971
aspewc1200
to gulch out?c1225
casta1300
vomea1382
brake1393
evacuec1400
to cast outa1425
deliver?a1425
voida1425
evomec1450
evomit?a1475
disgorge1477
to cast up1483
degorge1493
vomish1536
retch1538
parbreak1540
reject1540
vomit1541
evacuate1542
revomit1545
belch1558
vomit1560
to lay up1570
upvomit1582
to fetch up1599
puke1601
respew1606
inbelch1610
spew1610
to throw up1614
exgurgitate1623
out-spew1647
egurgitate1656
to throw off1660
to bring up1719
pick1828
sick1924
yark1927
barf1960
to park the tiger1970
vom1991
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > empty
emptyOE
emptOE
avoida1382
to shake out1382
devoida1400
evacuec1400
void1506
toom?a1513
unburden1538
disgarboil1567
inanitea1598
unbowel1597
unfill1607
to turn out?1609
unteemc1635
evacuatea1652
vacuate1651
unempt1798
disglut1800
eviscerate1834
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > empty > empty or exhaust > of air
evacuate1660
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth viii. sig. E.i After you haue euacuated your body, & trussed your poyntes, kayme your heade oft.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxii. ix. 443 The broth of these fishes hath the name to evacuat both the bellie and the bladder.
1644 F. Quarles Loyall Convert 19 Physicians evacuate the Body, sometimes by Vomit, sometimes by Purge.
a1652 R. Brome City Wit iii. ii. sig. D, in Five New Playes (1653) I will prefer thee to..make my Bed..and evacuate my Chamberpot.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall To Rdr. sig. A7v Evacuate such Receivers as ours, till there be no more Air left in them.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 99. ⁋3 Had detached all his Subjects and evacuated all his Stores.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 215 The Contraction of the Lacrymal Glands, whereby they are evacuated.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. viii. 261 In all cases of poisoning, the first step is to give the antidote..and then evacuate the stomach.
1883 Standard 31 Jan. 5/4 It is possible..to evacuate them by cutting trenches through which the black ooze drains.
b. absol. (In quot. 1621 †to let blood.)
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > let blood [verb (intransitive)]
to let bloodeOE
evacuate1621
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. v. ii. 481 If the malady continue, it is not amisse to euacuate in a part, in the forehead.
c. figurative in various senses. Const. of. In later use esp. To deprive (a term, concept, etc.) of its contents or value. Cf. 4.
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the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > empty > specifically of immaterial things
evacuate1593
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. x. 188 By euacuating cleane, and..emptying the Church of euerie such rite and Ceremonie.
a1653 S. Ward in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1870) I. Ps. xiii. 5 Hath it [faith] not sovereign virtue in it, to..evacuate the mind of all ill thoughts and passions.
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths I. 8 I hope to evacuate my mind of every matter and thing I know..concerning his lordship.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 154 They..evacuate the term [spirit] of all its proper meaning.
1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire II. xii. 501 They sank into exhaustion, evacuated of all life and energy.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxxix. 384 Brown..evacuates the phænomenon of all that desiderates explanation.
1869 A. W. Haddan Apostolical Succession Church Eng. (1879) i. 15 To evacuate the sacraments of grace, and to regard them as merely acted prayers.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > [verb (reflexive)] > discharge itself
evacuate1725
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (reflexive)] > go or come out (of something confined)
vent1650
evacuate1725
the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [verb (intransitive)] > of canal: discharge itself
evacuate1817
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 151 At the farther End of this Lake, they found that it evacuated itself into a large River.
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. iii. 23 Such griefs evacuate themselves best by that particular channel.
1817 M. Keating Trav. II. 265 Where the canal evacuates is placed a net to catch what would pass off and be lost.
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the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > make unoccupied
wanec1200
evacuate1607
untenant1640
vacant1649
unstock1655
disnesta1700
to clean out1858
distenant1876
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 172 That the whole countrey might be euacuated and quite cleered from wolfes.
1687 in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 81 To evacuate a whole College will be..scandalous.
1704 Addr. Norfolk in London Gaz. No. 4068/2 A Great Monarch..evacuates whole Countries.
1708 London Gaz. No. 4462/2 Evacuating the Kingdom of all Foreign Troops.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 171. ⁋14 In France they annually evacuate their streets, and ship their prostitutes and vagabonds to their colonies.
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xiii. 75 Her room was no sooner evacuated of such troublesome visitants, than she secured the doors.
3. absolute.1881 Dillon in Times 5 Jan. 10/1 As soon as the army evacuates he can go back to his own home.
a. Of an army; To relinquish the occupation of (a country, fortress, town, position). Said also of the general in command, or of the authority that orders the withdrawal.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [verb (transitive)] > retreat to > withdraw from
evacuate1710
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 76. ⁋5 The Army..had begun to repass the Mountains, and would shortly evacuate Savoy.
a1745 J. Swift in Wks. VIII. 63 The emperour..never effectually evacuated Catalonia.
1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) III. xxxix. 35 The French forces who had invaded and seized Turks Island must immediately evacuate the same.
1840 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive 21 The garrison, in a panic, evacuated the fort.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xxv. 433 She [Austria] summoned the Emperor Nicholas to evacuate the Principalities.
1887 Spectator 28 May 722/1 Egypt is to be evacuated within three years.
b. gen. To quit, withdraw from (a place or apartment). Also absol.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away from [verb (transitive)]
leaveeOE
beleavea1250
devoidc1325
voidc1330
roomc1400
wagc1400
departa1425
refusea1425
avoid1447
ishc1450
remove1459
absent1488
part1496
refrain1534
to turn the backc1540
quita1568
apart1574
shrink1594
to fall from ——1600
to draw away1616
to go off ——a1630
shifta1642
untenant1795
evacuate1809
exit1830
stash1888
split1956
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vii. viii. 240 The Burgomasters were not slow in evacuating the premises.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. vii. viii. 80 The other guests had evacuated the apartment.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. iv. 100 Request your friend Mr. Donne to evacuate.
1877 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth (ed. 4) xxx. 303 I will evacuate it whenever you like.
** To make void or worthless.† 4. To make void, annul, deprive of force or validity. Chiefly in religious and legal phraseology. (The earliest recorded sense in English.) Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] > make void or invalid
wanea889
voida1340
avoidc1375
abolishc1475
disnull1509
disannula1513
annihilate1525
evacuate1526
aniente1528
extinct1530
disable1548
extinguish1548
solute1550
destitutea1563
exinanitea1575
cashier1596
devoid1601
shorta1616
supersede1618
vitiate1627
invalidate1649
out1653
vacate1662
exinanitiate1698
atheticize1701
squasha1777
invalid1827
negate1837
negative1837
unsanction1854
cancel-
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Biiiiv Cerimonyes..whiche all were euacuat and made voyde by the passion of our sauiour Jesu Christ.
1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. C.viv Thys is the marke at the whyche the Deuyll shooteth, to euacuate the crosse of Chryste.
1563 J. Davidson Answer to Tractiue Kennedy in D. Laing Misc. Wodrow Soc. (1844) I. 257 To have evacuat the Reasonis of ȝour Buik.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 81 Which defect..would not euacuate a Marriage after Cohabitation and Actual Consummation.
a1626 L. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 83 We evacuate the gift..if we vouchsafe not to accept of it.
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants iv. § 45. 213 Words, which evacuate your objection.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation ii. 62 Of which lands they had been thrown out in Queen Mary's reign, and their patents from king Edward evacuated.
1785 W. Paley Moral & Polit. Philos. (1818) I. 141 A latitude, which might evacuate the force of almost all promises.
II. To empty out (the contents of anything).† 5. Of the action of a medicine, vomiting, etc. (rarely of a personal agent by means of medicine): To clear out, get rid of, remove (a disease or humour). Also figurative. Obsolete. Cf. 1.† 7.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > remove or disperse [verb (transitive)] > disperse, etc., humours or morbid matter
cleansec1000
resolvea1398
slaya1400
dissolvec1400
evacuec1400
mundify?a1425
repel?a1425
attenuate1533
evacuate1533
discuss?1537
divert?1541
extenuate1541
intercide?1541
educe1574
scour1577
attray1579
clenge1582
divertise1597
derive1598
revel1598
display1607
draw1608
incide1612
correct1620
fuse1705
lavage1961
1533 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe iii. vii Vnctions with oyles and oyntementes..do shortely euacuate the fulnesse.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxv. v. 217 The white [Ellebore purgeth] by vomit upward, and doth evacuat the offensive humours which cause diseases.
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ ii. xlvi. 314 A perfect Crisis is that which evacuates all the vitious Matter.
1715 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 230 The Seed of this Plant evacuates yellow Choler.
a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) IX. 341 Fasting and humiliation is a sovereign remedy to evacuate all spiritual distempers.
1774 W. Buchan Domest. Med. (ed. 3) xlix. 602 The principal intention..is to evacuate the offending matter.
1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 210 Thomson declared his [sc. Pope's] distemper to be a dropsy, and evacuated part of the water by tincture of jalap.
6. absolute.1634 J. Levett Ordering of Bees 59 They haue no Intraylls or other inward Organs, by which either to retaine or evacuat.1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus 104 A man that doth feed upon one dish at a meal shall nothing near evacuate..so quick or readily as one that dines upon two or more.1706 W. Oliver in Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 2178 But no body ever saw him Eat or Evacuate.
a. To void, discharge (excrements, etc.) through ‘any of the excretory passages’ (Johnson); in modern use only through the bowels or mouth.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excrete [verb (transitive)]
yetOE
to put outa1350
void1398
expelc1405
avoid1562
ejaculate1578
excern1578
regurgitate1578
egest1607
evacuate1607
vent1607
expurgate1621
excrete1669
pass1698
to put off1740
re-ejaculate1826
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 413 That part..will grow vnto a head and breake, euacuating great aboundance of filthy matter.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 37 That round hole near her [Black Snail's] neck..out of which I have observed some salivous Matter to be evacuated.
1768 Alexander in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 68 I started up..made some efforts to vomit, but evacuated nothing.
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 386 About four pints of urine had been evacuated.
1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves x. 173 He evacuated such floods of water that the mountain torrents were full.
b. In wider sense (partly transferred from the above): To discharge, throw off, vent. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit
send971
stretchc1275
casta1300
sheda1325
manda1350
to throw outa1413
yielda1450
devoida1475
render1481
reflair1509
sup out1513
to give out1530
utter1536
spout1568
to give fortha1586
to let fly1590
to put out1614
eject1616
evacuate1622
ejaculate1625
emit1626
fling1637
outsend1647
exert1660
extramit1668
exclude1677
emane1708
extromita1711
evolve1772
emanate1797
discharge1833
exsert1835
to give off1840
1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xli. 98 Their houses are made..with a laver in the toppe, to evacuate the smoake when they make fire.
1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 20 The Lime having evacuated its putrefaction.
1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris ii. 24 When a Margate hoy evacuates her cargo, the crowd on the pier is usually considerable.
1841 Fraser's Mag. 23 511 Judging from sentiments which he has evacuated in some of his public spoutifications.
a. To take out mechanically, leaving a vacuum or void; to pump out (water); to exhaust (air). Also figurative. Obsolete except in surgical use.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > extract gas or liquid
exhaust1540
draina1552
to draw off1594
uncask1594
spring1597
carry1602
tap1602
milka1628
to carry off1677
evacuate1719
drafta1875
aspirate1880
bleed1889
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 2 Any one would have thought that the native Propensity to rambling..should be worn out, the volatile Part be fully evacuated.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xv. 107 The contents of his skull must have been evacuated.
1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 295 As much of the brain was evacuated, as wou'd fill a hen's eggshell.
1772 C. Hutton Princ. Bridges 82 The water will ooze up..in too great abundance to be evacuated by the engines.
1781 W. Cowper Let. 5 Mar. (1979) I. 456 As much of the Mould as can be taken out without disturbing the roots must be evacuated, and its place supplied with fresh.
1797 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) v. 111 If..the pus be evacuated externally, there will be a scar in the neck.
1799 W. Jones Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (ed. 2) I. iv. App. 160 The ascent of the quicksilver..is proportionable to the quantity evacuated by each turn.
1877 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XII. 704 The contents of abscesses have been evacuated in the following directions.
b. intransitive for reflexive.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > of something confined
to run outeOE
aventc1375
escapec1450
avoid1483
evacue?1541
vent1541
event1609
disemboguea1625
evacuate1643
extravasate1677
1643 R. Overton Mans Mortallitie iii. 13 A Vessell..so sollid every where, that the Aire could not possibly evacuate.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 261 The Sap..turns aside and evacuates by this Aperture.
8.
a. To clear out, remove (inhabitants, inmates, or troops). †Also intransitive for reflexive. Cf. 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > removing from dwelling > remove from dwelling place [verb (transitive)]
flitc1175
displant1597
expose1632
evacuatea1639
evict1821
a1639 Wotton in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 220 Action had pretty well evacuated the idle people, which are the stock of rapine.
1690 J. Child Disc. Trade x. 207 The People that evacuate from us to Barbadoes.
1691 T. Beverley Thousand Years' Kingdom 23 Nor can he cease to Reign, till They [his enemies] are so Evacuated.
1698 Mem. E. Ludlow (1721) I. 179 The Garrison would be entirely evacuated before they could signify their Pleasure to the Army.
1872 Daily News 3 May 5/6 The wounded used to be stowed in it [the refreshment room at Meaux] till the time came conveniently to evacuate them.
1884 Daily News 5 Mar. 5/7 He was evacuating the garrison and Egyptian inhabitants of that place [Tokar].
b. spec. To remove (inhabitants of an area liable to aerial bombing or other hazards) to safer surroundings. Also transferred.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > provide with temporary accommodation > place in temporary accommodation > as evacuee
evacuate1938
1938 Times 28 Oct. 15/2 Authorities of our large towns will wonder whether or not to evacuate more than children.
1940 Ann. Reg. 1939 87 Mr. Greenwood and others strongly appealed to the Prime Minister to evacuate children at once.
1941 Ess. & Stud. XXVI. 61 This statement it has proved impossible to check, as the Burney newspapers are evacuated and the journal is not at Bodley.
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