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vacuate

vacuate verb: to empty; to clear out.

Verb

vacuate (third-person singular simple present vacuates, present participle vacuating, simple past and past participle vacuated)

  1. 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

Forms of vacuate

third-person singular presentvacuates
present participlevacuating
past participlevacuated
pastvacuated

Words formed from vacuate

Questions about vacuate

What does vacuate mean?
Vacuate means to empty; to clear out.
What part of speech is vacuate?
Vacuate is a verb.
What is the past tense of vacuate?
The past tense of vacuate is vacuated.

Words near vacuate in the dictionary

  1. vactrains
  2. vactrol
  3. vactrols
  4. vacua
  5. vacual
  6. vacuate
  7. vacuated
  8. vacuates
  9. vacuating
  10. vacuation
  11. vacuations

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