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Webster 1913 Edition
Vacuate
Vac′u-ate
,Verb.
T.
To make void, or empty.
[R.]
Definition 2024
vacuate
vacuate
English
Verb
vacuate (third-person singular simple present vacuates, present participle vacuating, simple past and past participle vacuated)
- To empty, to clear out.
- 1861, W. R. Wilde, On Aural Diagnosis and Diseases of the Mastoid Process, in The Medical Times and Gazette, volume 1, page 488
- Mr. Toynbee recommends, in cases of ruptured membrane tympani, "directing the stream of water [in syringing] through the orifice of the membrane into the tympanum in oder to vacuate the latter cavity of its contents."
- 1861, W. R. Wilde, On Aural Diagnosis and Diseases of the Mastoid Process, in The Medical Times and Gazette, volume 1, page 488
Translations
to empty
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