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/ɪvˌækjəwˈeɪʃən/ /ivˈækjəwˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Evacuation n.

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

(a)

(Mil.) Withdrawal of troops from a town, fortress, etc.

(b)

(Med.) 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. (Obs.)

Evacuation day, the anniversary of the day on which the British army evacuated the city of New York, November 25, 1783.

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"Evacuation" Quotes from Famous Books

... Fort Henry and Fort Donelson with the evacuation of Nashville had been a sword thrust into the heart of the lower South. The extent of these disasters had not been realized by the public. The South was yet a sleeping lioness. She could be roused and her powers wielded with certainty ...

— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon

... or the memorable phrase; and just at the close of his life he used the method with a striking though unrehearsed effect. On the 4th of March, 1881, he was speaking in support of Lord Lytton's motion condemning the evacuation of Kandahar. "My Lords," he said, "the Key of India is not Merv, or Herat, or,"—here came a long pause, and rather painful anxiety in the audience; and then the quiet resumption of the thread—"It is not the ...

— Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography • George William Erskine Russell

... in places. They have a large number of guns in the northern zone and a retirement could only be effected under heavy fire, which with unseasoned troops would make the retreat a hazardous one. As explained in my No. M.F. 664 evacuation of the Bay would involve with it the eventual evacuation of all but the original Anzac position. But even if this last step were not necessary the withdrawal of British soldiers from Suvla would be an overwhelming victory for the Turks. Our position in the Dardanelles would be entirely altered ...

— Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 • Ian Hamilton

... the growing disaffection of the Roman people was carried to Ravenna and quickened the impatience of Witigis, who was now eager to retrieve the blunder which he had committed in the evacuation of Rome. He marched southward with a large army, which is represented to us as consisting of 150,000 men, and in the early days of March he was already at the other end of the Milvian Bridge,[147] about two miles from Rome. Belisarius had meant to dispute the passage of the Tiber at ...

— Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation • Thomas Hodgkin

... thousand and one chances for contracting disease of the anus and rectum do not cease with the period of infancy. The child is left pretty much to shift for itself as to regularity of eating and the evacuation of the contents of its bowels, wherein disease has already obtained a foothold. All kinds of foodstuffs, at all hours, with seeds, stones, etc., are poked into its stomach, followed by constipating ...

— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison

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