evacuate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To empty or remove the contents of.
2. v. To create a vacuum in.
3. v. To excrete or discharge waste matter from (the bowel, for example).
4. v. To relinquish military possession or occupation of (a town, for example).
5. v. To withdraw or send away (troops or inhabitants) from a threatened area.
6. v. To withdraw or depart from; vacate.
7. v. To withdraw from or vacate a place or area, especially as a protective measure.
8. v. To excrete waste matter from the body.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make empty; cause to be emptied; free from anything contained: as, to evacuate a vessel; to evacuate the stomach by an emetic.
2. Hence To leave empty; vacate; depart from; quit: as, the enemy evacuated the place.
3. To make void or empty of something essential; deprive; strip.
4. To make void; nullify; make of no effect; vacate: as, to evacuate a marriage or a contract.
5. To void; discharge; eject: as, to evacuate excrementitious matter.
6. To produce an evacuation, as by letting blood.

Wiktionary

1. v. To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.
2. v. To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
3. v. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of.
2. v. rare Fig.: To make empty; to deprive.
3. v. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
4. v. To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.
5. v. obsolete To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
6. v. obsolete To let blood.
7. v. to expel stool from the bowels; to defecate.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. move out of an unsafe location into safety
2. v. move people from their homes or country
3. v. create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)
4. v. excrete or discharge from the body
5. v. empty completely