Third person singular present tense of evacuate; to remove or withdraw people from a place of danger, or to expel contents from the body.
From Latin evacuare (e- out + vacare to be empty), describing the action of removing or expelling something.
The word 'evacuate' can mean two opposite things in different contexts—clearing a building during a fire or clearing your bowels—both use the same Latin root meaning 'to empty'!
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