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Vacuate - What does it mean?

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vacuate

English

Verb

(vacuat)
  • To empty, to clear out.
  • * 1861 , W. R. Wilde, On Aural Diagnosis and Diseases of the Mastoid Process'', in ''The Medical Times and Gazette , volume 1, page 488
    • Mr. Toynbee recommends, in cases of ruptured membrane tympani, "directing the stream of water [in syringing] through the orifice of the membrane into the tympanum in oder to vacuate the latter cavity of its contents."

    Related terms

    * vacuation * vacuist, vacuity * vacuous, vacuousness

    See also

    * vacate * evacuate

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