evacuate

English

Etymology

From Latin evacuare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/

• Audio (UK):

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Verb

1. 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.

2. To cause to leave or withdraw from.

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

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.
   • (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.

5. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
6. 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

• self-evacuate

Related terms

• evacuation (noun)

Descendants

• → Cebuano: bakwit
  • → English: bakwit

Translations

to move out of an unsafe location into safety

• Arabic: جَلَا عَن (jalā ʕan)
• Belarusian: эвакуіраваць (evakuiravacʹ)
• Bulgarian: евакуирам (bg) (evakuiram)
• Catalan: evacuar (ca)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: evakuovat (cs)
• Danish: evakuere (da)
• Dutch: evacueren (nl)
• Esperanto: evakui
• Finnish: tyhjentää (fi), evakuoida (fi)
• French: évacuer (fr)
• German: evakuieren (de) (1,2,4), entleeren (de) (3), annullieren (de) (4)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: εκκενώνω (el) (ekkenóno)
• Italian: evacuare (it)
• Japanese: 避難する (ja) (ひなんする, hinan-suru)
• Korean: 비우다 (ko) (biuda)
• Maori: whakatahi
• Polish: ewakuować (pl)
• Portuguese: evacuar (pt)
• Russian: эвакуи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (evakuírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: evakuírati (sh), isprázniti (sh)
• Spanish: evacuar (es)
• Swedish: evakuera (sv), utrymma (sv)
• Thai: อพยพ (th) (òp-pá-yóp)
• Ukrainian: евакуювати (evakujuvaty)
• Vietnamese: di tản

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Italian

Verb

evacuate

1. second-person plural present indicative of evacuare
2. second-person plural imperative of evacuare
3. feminine plural of evacuato

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) ēvacuāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēvacuō