Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun evacuation

3 senses of evacuation

Sense 1
emptying, voidance, evacuation -- (the act of removing the contents of something)
       => removal, remotion -- (the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy")

Sense 2
evacuation -- (the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection)
       => withdrawal -- (the act of withdrawing; "the withdrawal of French troops from Vietnam")

Sense 3
elimination, evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding -- (the bodily process of discharging waste matter)
       => discharge, emission, expelling -- (any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body; "the discharge of pus")