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Evacuate vs Evacate - What's the difference?

evacuate | evacate |

Evacate is a related term of evacuate.



As verbs the difference between evacuate and evacate

is that evacuate is to leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress while evacate is to empty.

evacuate

English

Verb

(evacuat)
  • To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.
  • The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.
  • * Burke
  • The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.
  • To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
  • The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen.
  • (figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
  • * Coleridge
  • Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important meaning.
  • To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
  • To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
  • to evacuate a contract or marriage
    (Francis Bacon)

    evacate

    English

    Verb

    (evacat)
  • (obsolete) To empty.
  • (Harvey)