evacuate

verb6

1. •
   To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.

   • The soldiers evacuated the fortress.
   • The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.
2. •
   To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.

   • The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.
3. •
   To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.

   • The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen.
4. •
   To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bladder or the bowels (to stool).

   • In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; [...] — 1822
5. •
   (figurative) To make empty; to deprive.

   • Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important doctrines. — 1825
6. •
   To make void; to nullify; to vacate.

   • it would not evacuate a marriage after cohabitation and actual consummation — 1622