as in empties
to remove the contents of
evacuate the cupboards completely before spraying the insecticide
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Recent Examples of evacuates
Not everyone evacuates at once in a storm.
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Alexandra Phelps, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026
There is this tendency to frame eating disorders as a purely biological phenomenon in a way that kind of evacuates them of all meaning, or actually repels the attempt to create meaning.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2026
On the morning of January 29, 2024, her family evacuates their homes in Tel al-Hawa in Gaza City.
—E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
Alexandra Phelps, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026
There is this tendency to frame eating disorders as a purely biological phenomenon in a way that kind of evacuates them of all meaning, or actually repels the attempt to create meaning.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2026
On the morning of January 29, 2024, her family evacuates their homes in Tel al-Hawa in Gaza City.
—E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evacuates
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To begin, lab assistant Julia Butac empties a burlap bag of beans into a bin and starts to sift them a couple handfuls at a time, removing anything that isn't a full bean.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
10 May 2026
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Best of all, its RockDock Plus empties the dustbin for me for up to seven weeks.—
Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
8 May 2026
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The ruling clears the way for Alabama and other states to continue with the method and is a setback for critics who hoped a fuller examination of Alabama’s protocol would halt its use.—
Kim Chandler,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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Gabriel and Saliba complement each other brilliantly; while one scraps, blocks and clears, the other sweeps, covers and builds with the ball.—
Sarah Shephard,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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“Evacuates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evacuates. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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