evacuate
- evacuate
- [[t]ɪvæ̱kjueɪt[/t]]
evacuates, evacuating, evacuated
1) VERB To evacuate someone means to send them to a place of safety, away from a dangerous building, town, or area.
[V n] They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country...
[V n] Since 1951, 18,000 people have been evacuated from the area.
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evacuation [[t]ɪvæ̱kjue͟ɪʃ(ə)n[/t]] plural N-VAR ...the evacuation of the sick and wounded...
An evacuation of the city's four-million inhabitants is planned for later this week.
2) VERB If people evacuate a place, they move out of it for a period of time, especially because it is dangerous.
[V n] The fire is threatening about sixty homes, and residents have evacuated the area...
Officials ordered the residents to evacuate.
Derived words:
evacuation plural N-VAR ...the mass evacuation of the Bosnian town of Srebrenica...
Burning sulfur from the wreck has forced evacuations from the area.
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Evacuate — E*vac u*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evacuated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Evacuating}.] [l. evacuatus, p. p. of evacuare to empty, nullify; e out + vacuus empty, vacare to be empty. See {Vacate}.] 1. To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Evacuate — E*vac u*ate, v. i. 1. To let blood [Obs.] Burton. [1913 Webster] 2. to expel stool from the bowels; to defecate. [PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
evacuate — I verb abscond, absent oneself, break camp, clear out, decamp, depart, disappear, empty, escape, exit, flee, leave, leave empty, locum vacuefacere, make a departure, march out, move out, quit, remove, retreat, run away, send away, take flight,… … Law dictionary
evacuate — UK US /ɪˈvækjueɪt/ verb [I or T] WORKPLACE ► to move people or to be moved from a dangerous place to somewhere safe: »be evacuated from sth »Fire broke out and all staff were evacuated from the building … Financial and business terms
evacuate — 1520s, from L. evacuatus, pp. of evacuare to empty, make void, nullify, used by Pliny in reference to the bowels, used figuratively in L.L. for clear out, from ex out (see EX (Cf. ex )) + vacuus empty (see VACUUM (Cf. vacuum)). Earliest sense in… … Etymology dictionary
evacuate — [v] clear an area; empty abandon, bail out*, cut out, decamp, depart, desert, discharge, displace, eject, expel, forsake, hightail, leave, move out, pack up, pull out, quit, relinquish, remove, run for the hills*, skidaddle*, vacate, withdraw;… … New thesaurus
evacuate — ► VERB 1) remove from a place of danger to a safer place. 2) leave (a dangerous place). 3) technical remove air, water, or other contents from (a container). 4) empty (the bowels or another bodily organ). DERIVATIVES evacuation noun. ORIGIN … English terms dictionary
evacuate — [ē vak′yo͞o āt΄, ivak′yo͞o āt΄] vt. evacuated, evacuating [< L evacuatus, pp. of evacuare < e , out + vacuare, to make empty < vacuus, empty] 1. to make empty; remove the contents of; specif., to remove air from so as to make a vacuum 2 … English World dictionary
evacuate — 01. Police had to [evacuate] the building because of a bomb scare. 02. The office tower was well organized for emergencies, so [evacuation] of the entire building only took about 5 minutes. 03. The embassy is working to [evacuate] its staff from… … Grammatical examples in English
evacuate — verb ADVERB ▪ immediately ▪ safely, successfully ▪ medically (esp. AmE) ▪ 6 000 soldiers have been medically evacuated since the war began. VERB + EVACUATE … Collocations dictionary
