# evacuate
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Verb

evacuate (third-person singular simple present evacuates, present participle evacuating, simple past and past participle evacuated)
* (transitive) To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from
    the soldiers evacuated the fortress
    The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.
** 1757, Edmund Burke, The Abridgement of the History of England:The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.
* To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
    The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.
** 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 327:Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.
* 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.
* (figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
** 1825, James Marsh, Preliminary Essay to Aids to Reflection:Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important doctrines.
* To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
** 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization‎, Edinburgh, London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 1:In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; [...]
* To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
    to evacuate a contract or marriage
** 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:it would not evacuate a marriage after cohabitation and actual consummation

#### Derived terms

* ejaculate and evacuate
* evacuative
* evacuator
* evacuatory
* self-evacuate

#### Related terms

* evacuation (noun)

#### Descendants

* → Cebuano: bakwit
** → English: bakwit
* → Tagalog: ebak

#### Translations
## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /e.vaˈkwa.te/, (traditional) /e.va.kuˈa.te/
* Rhymes: -ate
* Hyphenation: e‧va‧cuà‧te, (traditional) e‧va‧cu‧à‧te

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

evacuate
* inflection of evacuare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

evacuate f pl
* feminine plural of evacuato

#### Adjective

evacuate f pl
* feminine plural of evacuato

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

evacuate f pl
* plural of evacuata

### References

* ↑ evacuo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Latin
### Verb

ēvacuāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of ēvacuō

## Spanish
### Verb

evacuate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of evacuar combined with te