Definition of Evacuation

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Evacuation

The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging.

Withdrawal of troops from a town, fortress, etc.

Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.

That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.

Abolition; nullification.

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Evacuation Quotations

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.
Douglas Bader

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.
Peter Shaffer

So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place.
Michael Chertoff

Evacuation Translations

evacuation in German is Entleerung
evacuation in Norwegian is evakuering

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