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- DictionaryE·vac·u·ate/əˈvakyəˌwāt/
verb
- 1. remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safer place: "several families were evacuated from their homes"
- 2. remove air, water, or other contents from (a container): technical "when it springs a leak, evacuate the pond"
to remove people from a dangerous place: [ T ] Residents were ordered to evacuate the area before the hurricane made landfall. science. Evacuate means to remove something, esp. a gas or liquid, from a container.
Definition of evacuate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1 [transitive] to move people from a place of danger to a safer place evacuate something Police evacuated nearby buildings. evacuate somebody (from…) (to…) Children were evacuated from the area to escape the bombing. Families were evacuated to safer parts of the city.
4 days ago · 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 ]
1. 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.
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 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. Military.
to move people from a dangerous place to somewhere safer: The police quickly evacuated the area after the bomb threat. evacuation. noun [ C, U ] uk / ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃ ə n / us. the evacuation of civilians from the war zone. (Definition of evacuate from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of evacuate.
