Verb

(label) To set apart or cut off from others.

(label) To place in quarantine or isolation.

(senseid) To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.

(label) To insulate, or make free of external influence.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)

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To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.

(label) To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.

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)