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Definition of Evacuating
1. evacuate [v] - See also: evacuate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Evacuating
Literary usage of Evacuating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... tell them to take up their dead, not " after evacuating the territory of ...
they might take up their dead after evacuating their country ; but if in ..."
2. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1866)
"... as to evacuating Mount Washington, as you may judge best, and so far revoking
the order given to Colonel Magaw to defend it to the last. ..."
3. A Manual for the Practice of Surgery by Thomas Bryant (1881)
"Clover's evacuating apparatus. Fio 381. ... Rubber tuli« two feet in length, c.
evacuating tube of sliver. ..."
4. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"The French not evacuating the four neutral islands in the West Indies, is assigned
as one of the causes of the war. Henry Moore, Esquire, was appointed ..."
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