<p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to leave empty; vacate</li><li>to remove (persons or things) from a place, as a dangerous place or disaster area, for reasons of safety or protection</li><li>to remove persons from (a city, town, building, area, etc.) for reasons of safety</li><li>to withdraw from or quit (a town, fort, etc., that has been occupied)</li><li>to discharge or eject as through the excretory passages, especially from the bowels</li><li>to deprive</li><li>to produce a vacuum in</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms:</strong></p><ul><li>drain</li><li>void</li><li>empty</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>to leave a place because of military or other threats</li><li>to void; defecate</li></ul>