Exterminate vs Evacuate - What's the difference?
exterminate | evacuate |
To kill all of a population, usually deliberate and especially applied to pests.
(figuratively) To bring a definite end to, finish completely. A rather strong word that implies that what has been ended won't resurface.
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.
As verbs the difference between exterminate and evacuate
is that exterminate is to kill all of a population, usually deliberate and especially applied to pests while evacuate is to leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.exterminate
English
Verb
(exterminat)- We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.
- Even a mass birching at the public school failed to exterminate truancy.
Synonyms
* (to kill all) annihilate, eradicate, extermine, uproot * (to bring an end to) stamp out * See alsoDerived terms
* extermination * exterminative * exterminator * exterminatoryevacuate
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)
