Evacates vs Evacuates - What's the difference?
As verbs the difference between evacates and evacuates is that evacates is (evacate) while evacuates is .
evacates
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evacate
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Verb
(evacat)
(obsolete) To empty.
- (Harvey)
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evacuates
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evacuate
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Verb
(evacuat)
To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.
- The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.
* Burke
- The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.
To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
- The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen.
(figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
* Coleridge
- Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important meaning.
To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
- to evacuate a contract or marriage
- (Francis Bacon)
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