vacu- +

A partial evacuation.

1. A reference to emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic.
2. Medicine which tends to empty an organ or passage.
3. Evacuating; promoting thorough evacuation; an evacuant medicine or agent; especially, from the bowels; being cathartic; purgative.

1. To leave empty; to vacate.
2. To remove (persons or things) from a place, as a dangerous place or disaster area, for reasons of safety or protection: "They had to evacuate the inhabitants of towns in the path of a flood."
3. To remove people from (a city, town, building, area, etc.) for reasons of safety: "The embassy was evacuated because of the bomb threat."
4. To remove (troops, wounded soldiers, civilians, etc.) from a war zone, combat area, etc.
5. To withdraw from or quit (a town, fort, etc., that has been occupied).
6. To discharge or eject as through the excretory passages; especially, from the bowels.
7. To void; to defecate.

1. The act or process of evacuating, or the condition of being evacuated; discharge or expulsion, as of contents.
2. To discharge, as of waste matter through the excretory passages; especially, from the bowels.
3. Something evacuated or discharged.
4. The removal of people or things from an endangered area.
5. Clearance by removal of troops, equipment, etc.
6. The withdrawal or removal of troops, civilians, etc.

1. That which evacuates or the condition of being evacuated; discharge or expulsion, as of contents.
2. That which discharges, as of waste matter through the excretory passages; especially, from the bowels.
3. The removal of people or things from an endangered area.

1. A person or thing that evacuates.
2. In medicine, an instrument for removing impacted feces from the rectum.
3. A mechanical evacuant; an instrument for the removal of fluid or small particles from a body cavity, or of impacted feces from the rectum.
4. Ellik evacuator, a special instrument with a glass receptacle, latex, or plastic bulb, and flexible tubing; used to evacuate tissue fragments, blood clots, or calculi from the urinary bladder.

1. Someone who is withdrawn or removed from a place of danger, a disaster area, etc.
2. A person who has been evacuated from a dangerous area.

In emptiness.

In a vacuum or void; without reference to one's surroundings; without regard for reality.

1. The state of being vacant; emptiness.
2. A vacant, empty, or unoccupied place; such as, unoccupied lodgings or offices: "This apartment building still has no vacancies."
3. An office, position, or tenancy that is unfilled or unoccupied.
4. A gap; an opening; a breach.
5. An unoccupied position or office: "There is no vacancy on the Supreme Court."
6. A lack of thought or intelligence; vacuity: "She had a look of utter vacancy."
7. Mental inactivity or lack of thought or intelligence.
8. In a crystal, an imperfection resulting from an unoccupied lattice position. an office, position, or tenancy that is unfilled or unoccupied

1. Having no contents; empty; void: "The trunk was vacant."
2. Having no occupant; unoccupied: "There were several vacant seats on the train."
3. Not in use: "It is a vacant room."
4. Devoid of thought or reflection: "He had a vacant mind."
5. Characterized by, showing, or proceeding from lack of thought or intelligence: "She has a vacant expression on her face."
6. Not occupied by an incumbent, official, or the like.
7. Free from work, business, activity, etc.: "We have a few vacant hours."
8. Devoid or destitute (often followed by of): "He was vacant of human sympathy."
9. Having no tenant and devoid of furniture, fixtures, etc. (distinguished from unoccupied): "It was a vacant house."

In a vacant manner.

1. Containing nothing; empty.
2. Not occupied or put to use.
3. Lacking intelligence or knowledge: a vacant mind.
4. Lacking expression; blank; such as, a vacant stare.
5. Not filled with any activity; as, vacant hours.

1. To give up possession or occupancy of; such as, to vacate an apartment.
2. To give up or relinquish (an office, position, etc.).
3. To render inoperative; deprive of validity; to void; to annul: to vacate a legal judgment.
4. To cause to be empty or unoccupied; make vacant: to vacate one's mind of worries.
5. To withdraw from occupancy; surrender possession: "They will have to vacate when their lease expires."
6. To give up or leave a position, office, etc.
7. To leave; to go away.

1. A period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: "Schoolchildren are on vacation now."
2. Leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure.
3. A part of the year, regularly set aside, when normal activities of law courts, legislatures, etc., are suspended.
4. Freedom or release from duty, business, or activity.
5. An act or instance of vacating.
6. The act of making something legally void.
7. Etymology: "Freedom" or "release" (from some activity or occupation), from Old French vacation, from Latin vacationem, "leisure, being free from duty", from vacare, "to be empty, to be free", or "to be at leisure".

Literally, "an empty period"; that is, "a period unoccupied with work or duty".

1. Descriptive of something happening during a vacation.
2. A reference to anything applying to a vacation.