Evacuate vs Excavate - What's the difference?
evacuate | excavate |
To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.
* Burke
To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
(figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
* Coleridge
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 make a hole in (something); to hollow.
To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
To uncover (something) by removing its covering.
(zoology) Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.
As verbs the difference between evacuate and excavate
is that evacuate is to leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress while excavate is to make a hole in (something); to hollow.As a noun excavate is
any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.evacuate
English
Verb
(evacuat)- The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.
- The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.
- The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen.
- Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important meaning.
- to evacuate a contract or marriage
- (Francis Bacon)
