Evacuation

Quick meaning: Evacuation is a noun meaning The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.

Meaning

The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.

More Meanings

1. Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, country, fortress, etc.
2. The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
3. That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool, urine or other natural means.
4. Abolition; nullification.
5. Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; urination; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.

Example Sentences

evacuation of all Romish ceremonies

The Abſcess being broken an Ulcer is left behind, which may be known by the Evacuation of Matter by Vomit and Stool

Roads on either side of the river Rhine will be closed as authorities seal off the large evacuation zone. The Unesco World Heritage Cologne Cathedral sits just outside the area.

A large evening meal, deep sleep in a better bed than hers, a full evacuation, a hot bath (her own house had only a cold shower), a breakfast of bacon and eggs and sausages from Crabbe's boy — these had smoothed and restored her.

Word Forms

• evacuations

Synonyms for evacuation

Depending on context, synonyms include elimination, excretion, voiding, voidance, excreting, emptying.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include elimination, emptying, excreting, voidance, voiding, excretion.

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