Evacuation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Evacuation \E*vac`u*a"tion\, n. [L. evacuatio: cf. F.
     ['e]vacuation.]
     1. The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or
        discharging. Specifically:
        (a) (Mil.) Withdrawal of troops from a town, fortress,
            etc.


        (b) (Med.) Voidance of any matter by the natural passages
            of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation;
            also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by
            cathartics, venesection, or other means.
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     2. That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a
        discharge by stool or other natural means. --Quincy.
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     3. Abolition; nullification. [Obs.] --Hooker.
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     {Evacuation day}, the anniversary of the day on which the
        British army evacuated the city of New York, November 25,
        1783.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  evacuation
       n 1: the act of removing the contents of something [syn: {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 [syn: {elimination},
           {excretion}, {excreting}, {voiding}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "evacuation":
     BM, abandonment, absentation, bloody flux, bowel movement,
     casting away, catharsis, cessation, cleaning out, clearance,
     clearing, crap, decampment, defecation, dejection, departure,
     depletion, desuetude, diarrhea, discharging cargo, disuse,
     drainage, draining, dysentery, egress, elimination, emptying,
     escape, excretion, exhausting, exhaustion, exit, exodus, flight,
     flux, forsaking, getaway, going, hegira, jettison, jettisoning,
     leaving, lientery, loose bowels, movement, off-loading, parting,
     passing, pulling out, purgation, purge, removal, retirement,
     retreat, runs, shit, shits, stool, throwing overboard, trots,
     turistas, unloading, venting, voidance, voiding, walkout,
     withdrawal