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vacuating

vacuating is the present participle and gerund 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 vacuating

What is vacuating the present participle and gerund of?
Vacuating is the present participle and gerund of vacuate.

Words near vacuating in the dictionary

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

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