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EVACUATION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("evacuation" is a kind of...):

withdrawal (the act of withdrawing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evacuation"):

medevac; medical evacuation; medivac (the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care)

Instance hyponyms:

Dunkerque; Dunkirk (an amphibious evacuation in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches in northern France in a desperate retreat under enemy fire)

Derivation:

evacuate (move out of an unsafe location into safety)

evacuate (move people from their homes or country)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of removing the contents of something

Synonyms:

emptying; evacuation; voidance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("evacuation" is a kind of...):

remotion; removal (the act of removing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evacuation"):

drain; drainage (emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it)

Derivation:

evacuate (excrete or discharge from the body)

evacuate (empty completely)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The bodily process of discharging waste matter

Synonyms:

elimination; evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("evacuation" is a kind of...):

discharge; emission; expelling (any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evacuation"):

defecation; laxation; shitting (the elimination of fecal waste through the anus)

incontinence; incontinency (involuntary urination or defecation)

micturition; urination (the discharge of urine)

Derivation:

evacuate (excrete or discharge from the body)

Credits

 Context examples: 

For nature (as the physicians allege) having intended the superior anterior orifice only for the intromission of solids and liquids, and the inferior posterior for ejection, these artists ingeniously considering that in all diseases nature is forced out of her seat, therefore, to replace her in it, the body must be treated in a manner directly contrary, by interchanging the use of each orifice; forcing solids and liquids in at the anus, and making evacuations at the mouth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)