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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Evacuate \E*vac"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evacuated}; p. pr
& vb n. {Evacuating}.] [l. evacuatus p. p. of evacuare to
empty, nullify; e out + vacuus empty, vacare to be empty. See
{Vacate}.]
1. To make empty; to empty out to remove the contents of
as to evacuate a vessel or dish.
2. Fig.: To make empty; to deprive. [R.]
Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important
meaning. --Coleridge.
3. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the
contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
4. To withdraw from to quit to retire from as soldiers
from a country, city, or fortress.
The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.
--Burke.
5. To make void; to nullify; to vacate; as to evacuate a
contract or marriage. [Obs.] --Bacon.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
evacuated
adj : emptied by being pumped out or having a vacuum created; "a
highly evacuated glass tube"
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