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Evacuate \E*vac"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evacuated}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Evacuating}.] [l. evacuatus, p. p. of evacuare to
empty, nullify; e out + vacuus empty, vacare to be empty. See
{Vacate}.]
1. To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of;
as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
2. Fig.: To make empty; to deprive. [R.]
Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important
meaning. --Coleridge.
3. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the
contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
4. To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers
from a country, city, or fortress.
The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.
--Burke.
5. To make void; to nullify; to vacate; as, to evacuate a
contract or marriage. [Obs.] --Bacon.
- On Galveston Island, City Manager Doug Matthews recommended Thursday evening that residents start evacuating.
- "We're just evacuating the area for safety reasons.
- In the North Wales seaside town of Towyn, police were evacuating 2,000 people threatened by a high tide.
- Was there any chance of evacuating safely?
- Police said the bomb exploded as police officers were evacuating scores of families from their homes in the area following a telephoned warning by an anonymous caller.
- Forty-three million people live in about 175 coastal counties from Maine to Texas, and evacuating crowded urban areas and barrier islands is virtually impossible, Sheets said.
- The management of the Arabian-American Oil Company, or Aramco, was reported to be weighing the advisability of evacuating some of its 38,000 expatriate employees or dependents.
- Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress, has acknowledged his group was evacuating bases in Angola.
- The twin-engine Puma plunged into the Caribbean about a half-mile southeast of the outlying island of Desirade while evacuating Bernard Berchel, who had suffered head injuries when Hurricane Hugo hit on Sunday, officials said.
- Police were evacuating people from nearby houses when the bomb went off. Police said the girl was believed to have been in a telephone booth near the police station at the time of the explosion.
- Rescue teams today began evacuating survivors from a domestic jetliner that crashed three days ago in thick Amazon jungle, killing nine of the 54 people aboard, an air force spokesman said.
- Forty-three million people live in about 175 coastal counties from Maine to Texas, and evacuating crowded urban areas and barrier islands is virtually impossible, said Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center.
- Special flights and ships continued evacuating the thousands of tourists stranded in Sukhumi, the Red Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda reported today.
- Five years ago: American civilians and other foreigners began evacuating Beirut because of what were described as "unsettled conditions" in Lebanon.
- Police were evacuating residents from nearby houses when the bomb went off, they said.
- Brownsville police said they were requesting residents to consider evacuating, but were not ordering them to leave.
- He said officials asked U.S. Air Force and Navy authorities to assist in evacuating the rig after a rescue boat was forced back by rough seas.
- He called for evacuating women and children and for all men to help in rescue operations.
- Gene Graves, marketing director for Petroleum Helicopters Inc. in Lafayette, said his company's 18 bases in the Gulf Coast region were operating at full capacity evacuating the rigs.
- About 45 miles downstream in Geneva, emergency workers shored up another levee and continued evacuating residents, who started leaving their homes Friday night.
- The Indian Embassy, which already closed its missions in Kandahar and the eastern city of Jalalabad, has begun evacuating personnel from Kabul, according to the source.
- In southwest Montana, firefighters began evacuating 12 to 15 homes west of Darby as the Little Rock Creek fire spread to more than 1,000 acres in the Bitterroot National Forest.
- Among the costs associated with Operation Just Cause were expenses incurred prior to the invasion, including practice missions and the price of evacuating military dependents.
- Police said they were asking residents to consider evacuating, but were not ordering it.
- Two firfighters evacuating the building were cut by flying glass when there was an explosion, fire officials said.
- On Galveston Island, City Manager Doug Matthews recommended Thursday evening that the city's 62,000 residents start evacuating.
- Peterson, who has been in touch with state officials affected by the hurricane, praised local authorities for evacuating most people along the shoreline hit by Hugo.
- Foreign governments, already pondering the logistics of evacuating the Albanians in their missions and resettling them abroad, were faced with the more immediate problem of housing and feeding them in the meantime.
- He predicted that the NRC would reject Lilco's petition to increase output for the same reason Lilco has so far failed to win a full-power license: It doesn't have an approved plan for evacuating Long Island residents in case of an accident.
- One drill took place in front of Noriega's barracks; another last week practiced evacuating the American embassy, a step that would be taken if a U.S. military strike were imminent.