evacuate

English

Etymology

From Latin evacuare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/

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Verb

evacuate (third-person singular simple present evacuates, present participle evacuating, simple past and past participle evacuated)

1. (transitive) To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from

   the soldiers evacuated the fortress

   The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.

   • 1757, Edmund Burke, The Abridgement of the History of England:

     The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.

2. To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.

   The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.

   • 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 327:

     Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.

3. To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.

   The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen.

4. (figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
   • 1825, James Marsh, Preliminary Essay to Aids to Reflection:

     Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important doctrines.

5. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
   • 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization‎^[1], Edinburgh, London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 1:

     In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; [...]

6. To make void; to nullify; to vacate.

   to evacuate a contract or marriage

   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     it would not evacuate a marriage after cohabitation and actual consummation

Derived terms

• self-evacuate

Related terms

• evacuation (noun)

Descendants

• → Cebuano: bakwit
  • → English: bakwit
• → Tagalog: ebak

Translations

to move out of an unsafe location into safety

• Akan: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: evakuoj
• Arabic: خلا (ar) (ḵalā)
• Armenian: էվակուացնել (hy) (ēvakuacʻnel)
• Azerbaijani: köçürmək (az)
• Belarusian: эвакуі́раваць impf or pf (evakuíravacʹ)
• Bulgarian: евакуи́рам (bg) impf or pf (evakuíram)
• Catalan: evacuar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (evacuating from a place) 撤離／撤离 (zh) (chèlí), (evacuating people) 疏散 (zh) (shūsàn), (military) 後送／后送 (zh) (hòusòng)

• Czech: evakuovat (cs) impf or pf
• Danish: evakuere (da)
• Dutch: evacueren (nl)
• Esperanto: evakui
• Estonian: evakueeruma
• Finnish: tyhjentää (fi), evakuoida (fi)
• French: évacuer (fr)
• Georgian: ევაკუირება (evaḳuireba)
• German: evakuieren (de)
• Greek: εκκενώνω (el) (ekkenóno)
• Hungarian: kiürít (hu), evakuál (hu), kitelepít (hu), kimenekít (hu)
• Icelandic: rýma
• Italian: evacuare (it)
• Japanese: 疎開する (そかいする, sokai suru), 避難する (ひなんする, hinan suru)
• Kazakh: эвакуациялау (évakuasiälau)
• Khmer: អពយព (km) (ʼɑppyup)
• Korean: 비우다 (ko) (biuda)
• Lao: ອົບພະຍົບ (lo) (ʼop pha nyop)
• Latvian: evakuēt
• Lithuanian: evakuoti
• Macedonian: евакуи́ра impf or pf (evakuíra)
• Maori: whakatahi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: evakuere (no)

• Polish: ewakuować (pl) impf or pf
• Portuguese: evacuar (pt)
• Romanian: a evacua (ro)
• Russian: эвакуи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (evakuírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: евакуи́рати impf or pf, евакуи́сати impf or pf

  Roman: evakuírati (sh) impf or pf, evakuísati impf or pf

• Slovak: evakuovať impf or pf
• Slovene: evakuirati impf or pf
• Spanish: evacuar (es)
• Swedish: evakuera (sv), utrymma (sv)
• Thai: อพยพ (th) (òp-pá-yóp)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: евакуюва́ти impf or pf (evakujuváty)
• Vietnamese: di tản

to cause to leave or withdraw from

• Arabic: جَلَا (jalā), أَخْلَى (ʔaḵlā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: evakuere (no)

to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum

• Arabic: فَرَّغَ (farraḡa), خَلَّى (ḵallā)
• Bulgarian: изпра́звам (bg) impf (izprázvam), изпра́зня pf (izpráznja)
• German: entleeren (de)
• Irish: folmhaigh
• Latin: ēvacuō
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: evakuere (no)

• Russian: опорожня́ть (ru) impf (oporožnjátʹ), опорожни́ть (ru) pf (oporožnítʹ), опустоша́ть (ru) impf (opustošátʹ), опустоши́ть (ru) pf (opustošítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: испражња́вати impf, испра́знити pf

  Roman: ispražnjávati (sh) impf, isprázniti (sh) pf

to make empty; to deprive

• Arabic: أَفْرَغَ (ʔafraḡa)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.vaˈkwa.te/, (traditional) /e.va.kuˈa.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: e‧va‧cuà‧te, (traditional) e‧va‧cu‧à‧te

Etymology 1

Verb

evacuate

1. inflection of evacuare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

evacuate f pl

1. feminine plural of evacuato

Adjective

evacuate f pl

1. feminine plural of evacuato

Etymology 3

Noun

evacuate f pl

1. plural of evacuata

Latin

Verb

ēvacuāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēvacuō

Spanish

Verb

evacuate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of evacuar combined with te