EVACUATE Copy link • EVACUATETo empty, Vid: To void by any of the excretory passages, evomere: exspuere: exscreare: per os reddere (of bringing up); *per alvum reddere. To purge the bowels, etc., alvum inanire (Plin.); alvum purgare, solvere, subducere, dejicere; or dejicere only. Anything is as good as a purgative for evacuating the bowels, aliquid medicamenti instar est ad eliciendas alvos (Plin.). To withdraw troops from. To evacuate a town, urbe excedere (especially of soldiers): urbem relinquere (to quit it from necessity): copias ex urbe educere (of the general): praesidium ex urbe removere (to withdraw a garrison): to evacuate a country, (ex) finibus excedere (general term, especially of soldiers); copias ex finibus educere (of the general). Thus Croton was evacuated, ita Crotone excessum est. Valerius and Curio found Sardinia and Sicily evacuated, nacti vacuas ab imperiis Sardiniam Valerius, Curio Siciliam (i. e., the commander-in-chief had quitted the islands): ☞ vacuefacere, general term for to make empty (e.g., the benches, subsellia, Cic., where the reading is not quite certain); but vacuefacere Scyrum (Nep.) is, to remove all its inhabitants. Annul; Vid.