Word Meanings - EVACUATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important meaning. Coleriage. 3. To remove; to eject; to void; o discharge, as

Additional info about word: EVACUATE

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. Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important meaning. Coleriage. 3. To remove; to eject; to void; o 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. Bacon.

Related words: (words related to EVACUATE)

• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• EJECTMENT
  A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton. (more info) 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of
• IMPORTANTLY
  In an important manner.
• EMPTYING
  The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (more info) 1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• EJECTA
  Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta, or excreta, of the body.
• MEAN
  menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• MEANDROUS; MEANDRY
  Winding; flexuous.
• MEANDER
  Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• MEANLY
  Moderately. A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham.
• DISCHARGER
  One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
• DISCHARGE
  1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge
• MEAN-SPIRITED
  Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• MEANDRINA
  A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• IMPORTANT
  1. Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious. Thou hast strength as much As serves to execute a mind very important. Chapman. 2. Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing;
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• REMEANT
  Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
• ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.
• INTERMEAN
  Something done in the meantime; interlude. B. Jonson.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• IRREJECTABLE
  That can not be rejected; irresistible. Boyle.
• REJECT
  re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among
• UNMEANT
  Not meant or intended; unintentional. Dryden.
• DEMEANANCE
  Demeanor. Skelton.
• DEJECTURE
  That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot.