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Evacuation   /ɪvˌækjəwˈeɪʃən/  /ivˈækjəwˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Evacuation

noun
1.
The act of removing the contents of something.  Synonyms: emptying, voidance.
2.
The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection.
3.
The bodily process of discharging waste matter.  Synonyms: elimination, excreting, excretion, voiding.



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"Evacuation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Garibaldi's ammunition was exhausted. He refused to submit to any humiliating terms that might be offered to Palermo. He threatened to renew hostilities if the enemy still thought of them. All declared for war, though they knew how such a war must have ended. It was by the Royalists' act that the evacuation of the ...
— Heroes of Modern Europe • Alice Birkhead
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... that if the captain were exposed to fatigue, privation, cold, etc., he exhibited the ordinary symptoms of amenorrhea or suppression. Fournier speaks of a man over thirty years old, who had been the subject of a menstrual evacuation since puberty, or shortly after his first sexual intercourse. He would experience pains of the premenstrual type, about twenty-four hours before the appearance of the flow, which subsided when the menstruation ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
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... person. In fact, for the first time he was compelled to demand of the senate to anticipate the levy for the ensuing year, and each day also brought depressing news. The prince arch-treasurer returned the following autumn, forced to quit Holland after the evacuation of this kingdom by our troops; whilst Marshal Gouvion Saint-Cyr was compelled at Dresden to sign a capitulation for himself and the thirty thousand men whom he had held in ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
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... Long Island meant, of course, the evacuation of New York, since the city could now be commanded by the enemy's guns on the Heights. This movement was decided upon by Washington and his generals at a council of war; the garrison was withdrawn from Governor's Island, and after the surplus ammunition and military stores had been forwarded ...
— "Old Put" The Patriot • Frederick A. Ober
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... communist Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh in 1975 and ordered the evacuation of all cities and towns; over 1 million displaced people died from execution or enforced hardships. A 1978 Vietnamese invasion drove the Khmer Rouge into the countryside and touched off 13 years of fighting. UN-sponsored elections in 1993 helped restore some semblance of normalcy, ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
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