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evacuation

About 3.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.
  2. noun Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, country, fortress, etc.
  3. noun The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
  4. noun Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; urination; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
  5. noun That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool, urine or other natural means.
  6. noun Abolition; nullification.

Similar words

elimination emptying excreting voidance voiding excretion evacuated evac evacuate departure

Often followed by

of and from was by to is in hospital

Word family

evacuations

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