1. Move out of an unsafe location into safety
   "After the earthquake, residents were evacuated"
    
2. Move people from their homes or country
   "The residents were evacuated due to the approaching hurricane"
    
3. Remove content from
   "evacuate the bottle"
    
4. Create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)
   "They evacuated the chamber before beginning the experiment"
    
5. Excrete or discharge from the body
   "The patient needed to evacuate their bowels";
   - void, empty

Derived forms: evacuated, evacuates, evacuating

Type of: displace, egest, eliminate, empty, excrete, move, pass, up sticks [Brit, informal]

Encyclopedia: Evacuate