Evacuate vs Vacant - What's the difference?

As a verb evacuate

is to leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.

not occupied; empty.

(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)

(-)

Not occupied; empty.

vacant lot

Showing no intelligence or interest.

''a vacant stare

* (Not occupied) available, empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied * (Showing no intelligence or interest) vacuous, thousand mile stare

* vacancy noun * vacantly adverb