EVACUATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evacuation mean? 

• EVACUATION (noun)
  The noun EVACUATION has 3 senses:

1. the act of removing the contents of something

2. the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection

3. the bodily process of discharging waste matter

  Familiarity information: EVACUATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVACUATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of removing the contents of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

emptying; evacuation; voidance

Hypernyms ("evacuation" is a kind of...):

remotion; removal (the act of removing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evacuation"):

drain; drainage (emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it)

Derivation:

evacuate (excrete or discharge from the body)

evacuate (empty completely)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("evacuation" is a kind of...):

withdrawal (the act of withdrawing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evacuation"):

medevac; medical evacuation; medivac (the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care)

Instance hyponyms:

Dunkerque; Dunkirk (an amphibious evacuation in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches in northern France in a desperate retreat under enemy fire)

Derivation:

evacuate (move out of an unsafe location into safety)

evacuate (move people from their homes or country)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The bodily process of discharging waste matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

elimination; evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding

Hypernyms ("evacuation" is a kind of...):

discharge; emission; expelling (any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evacuation"):

defecation; laxation; shitting (the elimination of fecal waste through the anus)

incontinence; incontinency (involuntary urination or defecation)

micturition; urination (the discharge of urine)

Derivation:

evacuate (excrete or discharge from the body)

 Context examples 

This increases volume, increases peristalsis, stimulates evacuation, and relieves constipation.

(Glycerin Enema, NCI Thesaurus)

This increases the water content of stool, which results in increased gastrointestinal motility and evacuation of colonic contents.

(PEG-3350/Sodium Sulfate/Sodium Chloride/Potassium Chloride/Sodium Ascorbate/Ascorbic Acid-based Laxative, NCI Thesaurus)

This increases both the water content and volume of stool, which results in increased gastrointestinal motility and the evacuation of colonic contents leading to a complete cleansing of the colon.

(PEG-based Laxative NER1006, NCI Thesaurus)

Simethicone, a mixture of polydimethylsiloxane and silica gel, reduces the surface tension of gas bubbles, promoting gas bubble coalescence and so intestinal gas transit and evacuation.

(Magnesium Hydroxide/Aluminum Hydroxide/Simethicone Suspension, NCI Thesaurus)

Their fundamental is, that all diseases arise from repletion; whence they conclude, that a great evacuation of the body is necessary, either through the natural passage or upwards at the mouth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The blockage of bowel contents from evacuation; the causes are attributable to non-structural impediments, such as chemical imbalances or the side effects of medications, narcotics in particular.

(Functional Bowel Obstruction, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels.

(Constipation, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels.

(Constipation, NCI Thesaurus)

Macrogol 3350-based oral osmotic laxative promotes the retention of water in the bowel, thereby increasing the water content of stool, which results in increased gastrointestinal motility and stool transit time and evacuation of colonic contents.

(Macrogol 3350-Based Iso-Osmotic Laxative, NCI Thesaurus)

My master, continuing his discourse, said, “there was nothing that rendered the Yahoos more odious, than their undistinguishing appetite to devour every thing that came in their way, whether herbs, roots, berries, the corrupted flesh of animals, or all mingled together: and it was peculiar in their temper, that they were fonder of what they could get by rapine or stealth, at a greater distance, than much better food provided for them at home. If their prey held out, they would eat till they were ready to burst; after which, nature had pointed out to them a certain root that gave them a general evacuation.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)