evacuate
English
Etymology
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Verb
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- To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.
- The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.
- (Can we date this quote by Burke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.
- To cause to leave or withdraw from.
- The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.
- 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.
- (figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
- (Can we date this quote by Coleridge and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important meaning.
- (Can we date this quote by Coleridge and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
- To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
- to evacuate a contract or marriage
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
Derived terms
Related terms
- evacuation (noun)
Descendants
Translations
to move out of an unsafe location into safety
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Italian
Verb
evacuate
- second-person plural present indicative of evacuare
- second-person plural imperative of evacuare
- feminine plural of evacuato
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) ēvacuāte
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