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- Dictionaryevacuate/ɪˈvakjʊeɪt/
verb
- 1. remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safer place: "several families were evacuated from their homes" Similar
- 2. remove air, water, or other contents from (a container): technical "when it springs a leak, evacuate the pond"
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The meaning of EVACUATE is to remove the contents of : empty. How to use evacuate in a sentence.
EVACUATE definition: 1. to move people from a dangerous place to somewhere safe: 2. to empty something of its contents…. Learn more.
EVACUATE meaning: 1. to move people from a dangerous place to somewhere safe: 2. to empty something of its contents…. Learn more.
To evacuate someone means to send them to a place of safety, away from a dangerous building, town, or area. They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country. [ VERB noun ]
To withdraw from or vacate a place or area, especially as a protective measure: The mayor urged the residents to evacuate before the hurricane struck. 2. To excrete waste matter from the body.
[transitive, intransitive] evacuate (something) to move out of a place because of danger, and leave the place empty. Employees were urged to evacuate their offices immediately. Locals were told to evacuate. [transitive] evacuate something (formal) to empty your bowels. Definition of evacuate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
People evacuate when something like a tornado or act of terrorism makes their homes unsafe. To evacuate also means to empty completely, in the bathroom-oriented sense of evacuating (emptying) your bowels.
EVACUATE meaning: 1 : to remove (someone) from a dangerous place; 2 : to leave (a dangerous place)
to evacuate the inhabitants of towns in the path of a flood. to remove persons from (a city, town, building, area, etc.) for reasons of safety: to evacuate the embassy after a bomb threat.
To evacuate someone means to send them to a place of safety, away from a dangerous building, town, or area. 2. If people evacuate a place, they move out of it for a period of time, especially because it is dangerous.
