evacuate

Meanings

1. To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.
2. To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
3. To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
4. To make empty; to deprive.
5. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bladder or the bowels (to stool).
6. To make void; to nullify; to vacate.

Etymology

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