evacuate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from. transitive
    — The soldiers evacuated the fortress.
  2. To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
    — The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.
  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. To make empty; to deprive. figuratively
    — 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 bladder or the bowels (to stool).
    — 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

词形变化

evacuates present,singular,third-person evacuating participle,present evacuated participle,past evacuated past

词汇关系

衍生词
ejaculate and evacuate evacuative evacuator evacuatory self-evacuate
相关词
evacuation

词源

First attested in 1526; borrowed from Latin ēvacuātus, the perfect passive participle of ēvacuō (“to empty out, evacuate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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