to evacuate
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4.1
- verb
- /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/
:
evacuar
- Evacuate the area.
- evacuate homes
- evacuate people
- evacuate the area
OK, but remember, they can barely evacuate people from LaGuardia.
- OK, but remember, they can barely evacuate people from LaGuardia.
- But Father, he's now Mark was able to effectively evacuate this gentleman.
- Obviously made a sound and he left the building expecting everyone to evacuate.
- And so the authorities decide that all the children in the cities across the UK need to be evacuated.
- When I started working on the frontline in Zaparisha, we would evacuate casualties to that actual hospital that I used to work at.
- So that was the and you guys evacuated how many people?
- We were able to secure a plane that flew in with humanitarian supplies to Puerto Rico and then evacuated our sixty dogs four days after the hurricane.
- On top of that, a lot of people that decided, oh, shit, this is a little worse than we thought and tried to evacuate at last minute, drowned in their cars.
Examples
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There was also no difficulty evacuating casualties from the front lines to medical centers within Israel.
Academic text (2015) -
More than 20 families had to be evacuated while their homes were decontaminated.
Academic text (1997) -
And then they told me to evacuate the house, get far away.
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We have to evacuate the building and close it down.
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By the time they tried to evacuate the cities, it was already too late.
Academic text (2012) -
We've had to evacuate all personnel from the island for their own safety.
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The building's being evacuated.
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We're reporting live from Dante's Peak, where they're evacuating the entire town.
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In 2004, two NGOs working near Malakal were evacuated owing to mounting insecurity.
Academic text (2004) -
Everyone needs to evacuate the area immediately due to the approaching storm.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Leave a place or situation
∞
3.0
Leave a place quickly or suddenly
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1.0
To get away from a place where you are kept or are in danger
∞
1.0
Leave a place to do a task, for example to help people
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1.0
To leave a place or person and go somewhere else
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1.6
To leave secretly and quickly to get away from danger or control
331
2.4
To run away from a place because it is dangerous
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3.2
To leave a place quickly, often to travel somewhere else
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4.0
To move back from a place or plan to avoid danger
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1.0
To go out of a place or leave a situation
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3.6
Move out of a place suddenly in large numbers or fall out of a container and spread
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4.4
To move back from a place or activity to avoid danger and trouble
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7.9
To leave a place suddenly without permission
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3.5
Leave quickly to escape danger, often by flying
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3.4
To move people out of a building for safety during an emergency
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4.1
Leave a place because it is dangerous or officials tell you to
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4.9
Leave a place suddenly and quickly because you feel scared
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6.6
Leave a place quickly because people are angry or you are in trouble
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Morphology
Etymology
Evacuate comes from the Latin parts e- ('out') and vac- ('empty'), the same root you see in vacant and vacuum. So to evacuate people is to move them 'out' until the place is empty for safety.