Evacuate

Definition: Evacuate

Evacuate

Verb

1. Move out of an unsafe location into safety; "After the earthquake, residents were evacuated".

2. Empty completely; "evacuate the bottle".

3. Move people from their homes or country.

4. Create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel, etc.).

5. Excrete or discharge from the body.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "evacuate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Evacuate \E*vac"u*ate\, intransitive verb. To let blood [Obsolete]. (references)

Tips from 1870

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Synonyms: Evacuate

Departure

Leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye; Noun: disappear; abscond; (avoid); entrain; inspan.

Egress

Verb: emerge, emanate, issue; egress; go out of, come out of, move out of, pass out of, pour out of, flow out of; pass out of, evacuate.

Crosswords: Evacuate

Latin (empty, evacuate, purge).

Please evacuate the keyboard area (Crossing Jordan; writing credit: Enrico Oldoini)

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Books

• The British Decision to Evacuate Palestine: 1947-1948 (The Rise of Israel, Section Iii, Vol 36) (reference)

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Music

• Evacuate [IMPORT] (reference)

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Personnel Transfer Capsule (PTC) can mate with habitats and evacuate aquanauts. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

"SP4 Ruediger Richter (Columbus, Georgia), 4th Bn., 503 Inf., 173 Abn Bde (Separate), lifts his battle weary eyes to the heavens, as if to ask why? SGT. Daniel E. Spencer (Bend, Oregon) stares down at their fallen comrade. The day's battle ended, they silently await the helicopter which will evacuate their comrade from the jungle covered hills in Long Khanh Province." By Pfc. L. Paul Epley, 1966. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer.

Russia fulfills its promise to evacuate Manchuria. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Within fifteen days from the coming into force of the present Treaty the German troops and such officials as may be designated by the Commission set up under the provisions of paragraph 2 shall evacuate the plebiscite area. (reference)

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Health

Proctography, also known as defecography, shows how much stool the rectum can hold, how well the rectum holds it, and how well the rectum can evacuate the stool. (references)

Civil Liberties

Sri Lanka

The armed forces initially prevented more than 1,000 civilians from vacating conflict areas on the Jaffna peninsula during fighting in April and May 2000; however, the military quickly decided to permit civilians to evacuate the area after intense pressure by human rights groups. (references)

Economic History

Dominican Republic

On April 28, U.S. military forces landed to protect U.S. citizens and to evacuate U.S. and other foreign nationals. (references)

Cambodia

Many of those forced to evacuate the cities were resettled in new villages, which lacked food, agricultural implements, and medical care. (references)

Human Rights

Macedonia

The NLA reportedly attacked the ethnic-Albanian village of Malina Maala with mortars when villagers disobeyed NLA instructions to evacuate the settlement. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

An estimated 40,000 Madurese remain in camps in West Kalimantan and over 105,000 Madurese were forced to evacuate to East Java and Madura Island after over 600 died in ethnic violence in February and March. (references)

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Expressions using "evacuate": evacuate by air ♦ evacuate one's bowels. Additional references.

Albanian

zbraz (clear, clear out, deplenish, deplete, discharge, drain, draw, dump, effuse, empty, empty out, exhaust, flux, Lade, make a hole in, outpour, overrun, pour out, purge, shoot, tap, unload, unlock, void), largohem (backdown, backtrack, depart, get along, get away, go, go away, go off, leave, make oneself scarce, move out, recede, retire, run away, run off, secede, subside, take away, turn out, veer), lë bosh, boshatis (clean out, deplenish, empty, void). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرغ (be empty, become empty, complete, conclude, discharge, drain, dry out, empty, end, finalize, finish, pour, terminate, vacate, void), ‏نزح (bail up, emigrate, migrate), ‏تغوط (defecate, defecation, dejection, evacuation, motion, movement, pass, pass water, pooh), ‏خلى (acetic, empty, lift, unhand, vacate), ‏جلا (be evacuated, pan, polish, puzzle out, rub, scour, scrub, shine, wash), ‏بول (empty, evacuation, make water, micturition, pass water, pee, piddle, piss, urine, wee, wet). (various references)

Bulgarian 

евакуирам се (be evacuated), евакуирам, прочиствам (flush, open, purge, scour, weed out), изсмуквам (exhaust, suck, suck out), изхвърлям газове. (various references)

Chinese 

搬空 (Evacuated, Evacuating, Evacuation). (various references)

Czech

evakuovat, vystìhovat (eject, throw out), vyprázdnit (become empty, clean out, deplete, empty, exhaust, soak), přesídlit (relocate, resettle), odsunout. (various references)

Danish

udtømme (evacuate the bowels, purge), rydde bort (to clear, to evacuate), laksere (evacuate the bowels, purge), farezone evakueres (evacuate danger area). (various references)

Dutch

ontruimen (to clear, to evacuate), evacueren (evacuation). (various references)

Esperanto

evakui. (various references)

Farsi 

محروم کردن (Bereave, Deprive, Devest, Disappoint, Dispossess, Divest, Exclude, Geld), تهی کردن (Deplete, Exhaust, Purge, Strip, Vacate), تخلیه مزاج کردن , ترک کردن (Defect, Desert, Disuse, Leave, Pullout, Relinquish), خالی کردن (Aspirate, Deplete, Discharge, Disgorge, Empty, Hollow, Purge, Vacate, Vent). (various references)

Finnish

evakuoida, ulostaa (defecate). (various references)

French

vidanger, évacuons, évacuez, évacuer (to evacuate), évacuent. (various references)

Frisian

evakuearje. (various references)

German

räumen (check out, clear, empty, give up, move, move out, shift, sweep, to evacuate, vacate, withdraw). (various references)

Greek 

εκκενώνω (blow through, deplete, purge, vacate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לרוקן (deplete, drain, empty, strip, void). (various references)

Hungarian

kiürít (deplenish, draw out, empty, to clear out, to defecate, to deflate, to drain, to drink up, to empty, to evacuate, to quit, to tip out, to vacate, vacate). (various references)

Indonesian

menyingkirkan (lay aside, obviate, put away), mengungsikan, berevakuasi. (various references)

Italian

evacuare (empty), vuotare (deplenish, deplete, dump, empty, exhaust, flush, rifle, turn out, void), sgombrare (clear, clear away, move out of, pack up, vacate), sfollare (disperse), ritirare (abstract, collect, draw, draw back, pick up, recede, retire, retract, seclude, shrink, subside, take, take away, throw again, to withdraw, withdraw), rimuovere (clear away, deter, discharge, dislodge, dismiss, dissuade, obliterate, remove, shift), lasciare (abandon, allow, desertion, forsake, keep, leave, leave behind, leaving, let, lets, loose, quit, release, relinquish, resign, slack, to assume). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

立ち退く (to clear out, to evacuate, to take refuge, to vacate, to withdraw). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たちのく (to clear out, to evacuate, to take refuge, to vacate, to withdraw). (various references)

Korean 

� 수하십시�". (various references)

Manx

treigeil (abandon, betray, defect, departure, desert, deviation, evacuation, fall away, forsake; repudiation, jilt, lay aside, maroon, rat on, repudiate, strand, throw over), goaill magh (delete, evacuation, move out, take out, withdraw, withdraw as money, withdrawal), cur magh (board out, deal, delegate, delegation, dispatch, dispensation, dispense, displace, edition, eject, ejection, emission, emit, evacuation, excretion, expulsion, exude, issue, lay out, publication, publish, push out, put out, run out, turn out). (various references)

Norwegian

evakuere, tømme, rømme (abscond). (various references)

Papiamen

evakuá. (various references)

Pig Latin

evacuateay.(various references)

Portuguese

evacuar (excrete). (various references)

Romanian

evacua (clear, eject, evict, loosen, oust, reject, remove). (various references)

Russian 

эвакуировать;освобождатьть, эвакуировать, очищать (brighten, chasten, clarify, clean, clean out, cleanse, clear, decontaminate, defecate, depurate, deterge, distil, edulcorate, mop up, purge, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, scoured, scouring, scours), опорожнять (clean out, clear, clear out, deplenish, empty, void). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

evakuisati, isprazniti (become empty, clear out, empty, empty out, unload, vacate, void). (various references)

Spanish

evacuar (empty, pass, void), vaciarse (deplete, empty, vacate, void), despejar (clear, level, open up, turn out), desocupar (empty, quit, vacate). (various references)

Swedish

utrymma (empty, vacate), evakuera. (various references)

Thai

ถ่าย (อากาศ) ออก, อพยพ (immigrate, migrate). (various references)

Turkish

vücuttan dışarı atmak, tahliye etmek (clear, clear out, close out, discharge, empty, free, quit, set free, strip, vacate, void), boşaltmak (bleed, clean, clean out, clear, clear out, close out, debus, deplenish, deplete, discharge, disgorge, dismantle, drain, drain away, drain off, draw off, drop off, dump, ejaculate, empty, excrete, exhaust, let off, pour, pour from, pour out of, quit, strip, teem, tip, tip out, tip over, turn out, unlade, unload, unpack, vacate, void). (various references)

Ukrainian

випорожняти, евакуюватися, евакуювати (vacate). (various references)

evacuabit, evacuabitur, evacuabuntur, evacuandam, evacuans, evacuasti, evacuata, evacuate, evacuati, evacuatum, evacuatur, evacuaverit, evacuetur. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "evacuate": evacuated, evacuates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Evacuate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: evacaute, evacu, evacurate, evacutae, evacute. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: acuate, caveat, vacate.

-3 letters: aceta, acute, vacua.

-4 letters: acta, cate, cave, cete, cute, eave, tace, uvea, vatu.

-5 letters: ace, act, ate, ava, ave, cat, cee, cue, cut, eat, eau, ecu, eta, eve, tae, tau, tav, tea, tee, uta, vac, vat, vau, vee, vet.

+1 letter: evacuated, evacuates.

+2 letters: evacuative.