Evacuate vs Exhaust - What's the difference?
evacuate | exhaust |
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 draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.
To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.
To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.
(chemistry) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether.
A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.
The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
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Short for .
(obsolete) Exhausted; used up.
As verbs the difference between evacuate and exhaust
is that evacuate is to leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress while exhaust is to draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.As a noun exhaust is
a system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.As an adjective exhaust is
exhausted; used up.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)
exhaust
English
Verb
(en verb)- A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five. --Motley.
Synonyms
* spend, consume * tire out, weary * See alsoNoun
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