Noun: evacuation i,va-kyoo'ey-shun
- The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for protection
"The evacuation of the coastal areas was ordered as the hurricane approached"
- The act of removing the contents of something
"The evacuation of the storage unit took several hours";
- emptying, voidance
- The bodily process of discharging waste matter
"The kidneys play a vital role in evacuation";
- elimination, excretion, voiding
Derived forms: evacuations
Type of: discharge, emission, remotion [archaic], removal, withdrawal
Encyclopedia: Evacuation