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evacuation noun [ ɪˌvakjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n ]

• the action of evacuating a person or a place.
• "there were waves of evacuation during the blitz"
Similar: removal, clearance, shifting, expulsion, eviction, deportation, emptying, depopulation, abandonment, quitting, vacation, desertion, leaving, forsaking, departure from, withdrawal from, retreat from, pull-out from, disappearance from, exodus from, flight from, unpeopling,
• the action of emptying the bowels or another bodily organ.
• "patients with a feeling of incomplete evacuation"
Similar: emptying (out), voidance, voiding, opening, purging, drainage, (bowel) movement, defecation, urination, vomiting, expulsion, ejection, discharge, excretion, passing, elimination, emptying, draining, egestion,
Opposite: retention,


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