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vacuates

vacuates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of vacuate.

Meaning of vacuate

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

Questions about vacuates

What is vacuates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Vacuates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of vacuate.

Words near vacuates in the dictionary

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

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