evacuate
11evacuate — [[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… …
12evacuate */ — UK [ɪˈvækjueɪt] / US [ɪˈvækjuˌeɪt] verb Word forms evacuate : present tense I/you/we/they evacuate he/she/it evacuates present participle evacuating past tense evacuated past participle evacuated 1) [intransitive/transitive] to leave a building… …
13evacuate — /i vak yooh ayt /, v., evacuated, evacuating. v.t. 1. to leave empty; vacate. 2. to remove (persons or things) from a place, as a dangerous place or disaster area, for reasons of safety or protection: to evacuate the inhabitants of towns in the… …
14evacuate — verb a) To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress. The firefighters told everyone to evacuate the area as the flames approached. b) To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of,… …
15evacuate — v. (D; tr.) to evacuate from; to (the civilians were evacuated from the city to farms) * * * [ɪ vækjʊeɪt] to (the civilians were evacuated from the city to farms) (D; tr.) to evacuate from …
16evacuate — e|vac|u|ate [ıˈvækjueıt] v [Date: 1300 1400; : Latin; Origin: , past participle of evacuare, from vacuus empty ] 1.) [T] to send people away from a dangerous place to a safe place evacuate sb from/to sth ▪ Several families were evacuated from… …
17evacuate — verb ( ated; ating) Etymology: Middle English, to draw off morbid humors, from Latin evacuatus, past participle of evacuare to empty, from e + vacuus empty Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to remove the contents of ; empty 2. to discharge… …
18evacuate — To accomplish evacuation. [L. e vacuo, pp. vacuatus, to empty out] * * * evac·u·ate i vak yə .wāt vb, at·ed; at·ing vt 1) to remove the contents of <evacuate an abscess> 2) to discharge (as urine or feces) from the body as waste: VOID vi to …
19evacuate — e|vac|u|ate [ ı vækju,eıt ] verb * 1. ) intransitive or transitive to leave a building or other place because it is not safe: If the alarm sounds, all students should evacuate immediately. a ) transitive to make people leave a building because it …
20evacuate — verb 1 (T) to send people to a safe place from a dangerous place: evacuate sb from/to: The villagers were evacuated to the countryside. 2 (I, T) to empty a place by making all the people leave: The whole building has been evacuated. 3 formal to… …
