vacuate

English

Verb

vacuate (third-person singular simple present vacuates, present participle vacuating, simple past and past participle vacuated)

1. 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 order to vacuate the latter cavity of its contents."

Related terms

• evacuate
• vacuation
• vacuist, vacuity
• vacuous
• vacuum

Translations

to empty

• German: ausleeren (de)

See also

• vacate
• evacuate