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動詞

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

1. To empty; to clear out.
   • 1861, W. R. Wilde, “On Aural Diagnosis and Diseases of the Mastoid Process”, in The Medical Times and Gazette, volume 1, page 488:

     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."

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [wa.kuˈaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [va.kuˈaː.t̪e]