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🚁 Medical evacuation 🚁 To evacuate medically
to medevac

to medevac

1 4.9
To move someone by helicopter or plane to a hospital for treatment
  • verb
  • /ˈmɛdɪˌvæk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : evacuar
  • The paramedics will medevac the injured hiker from the remote mountain trail to the hospital.

Examples

  • And we medevac those guys and we come back to base who who won, who won that right?

  • We're gonna medevac him out.

    The Outpost (2020)

  • We still can't get medevac in, area's too hot.

  • It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a format that we use to medevac out wounded, wounded Marines or, you know, wounded service members on the battlefield.

  • After the earthquake, they had to medevac several survivors to safety using rescue helicopters.

  • The military plans to medevac anyone who is seriously hurt during the operation.

How Urgent

rescue
730 1.0
to medevac
  • Specialized
1 4.9
to evacuate
344 4.1
airlift
21 4.7
to transfer
528 2.7

Surface Forms

medevac infinitive
medevaced past
medevaced past participle
medevacing present participle
medevacs third person singular

Etymology

Medevac as a verb comes from the same parts, med ('medical') + evac (from evacuate, 'move away quickly'), and it means to transport someone by air for emergency treatment. So to medevac a person is to send them quickly to a hospital or care by helicopter or plane.