"vacuate" meaning in English

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    {
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "vacuating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vacuated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1861, W. R. Wilde, “On Aural Diagnosis and Diseases of the Mastoid Process”, in The Medical Times and Gazette, volume 1, page 488:",
          "text": "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.\"",
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      "glosses": [
        "To empty; to clear out."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "empty",
          "empty"
        ],
        [
          "clear out",
          "clear out"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "evacuate"
        },
        {
          "word": "vacuation"
        },
        {
          "word": "vacuist"
        },
        {
          "word": "vacuity"
        },
        {
          "word": "vacuous"
        },
        {
          "word": "vacuum"
        },
        {
          "word": "vacate"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to empty",
          "word": "ausleeren"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vacuate"
}

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    {
      "form": "vacuates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "vacuating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vacuated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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      "form": "vacuated",
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  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "evacuate"
    },
    {
      "word": "vacuation"
    },
    {
      "word": "vacuist"
    },
    {
      "word": "vacuity"
    },
    {
      "word": "vacuous"
    },
    {
      "word": "vacuum"
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    {
      "word": "vacate"
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        "To empty; to clear out."
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          "clear out",
          "clear out"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to empty",
      "word": "ausleeren"
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  "word": "vacuate"
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