Meanings
verbvacuate (third-person singular simple present vacuates, present participle vacuating, simple past and past participle vacuated)
present singular third person vacuates · participle present vacuating · participle past vacuated · past vacuated
- To empty; to clear out.
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 order 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
German ausleeren
- ausleerento empty
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vacuate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vacuate.
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