evacuate
verb /ɪˈvækjueɪt/
/ɪˈvækjueɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they evacuate | /ɪˈvækjueɪt/ /ɪˈvækjueɪt/ |
| he / she / it evacuates | /ɪˈvækjueɪts/ /ɪˈvækjueɪts/ |
| past simple evacuated | /ɪˈvækjueɪtɪd/ /ɪˈvækjueɪtɪd/ |
| past participle evacuated | /ɪˈvækjueɪtɪd/ /ɪˈvækjueɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form evacuating | /ɪˈvækjueɪtɪŋ/ /ɪˈvækjueɪtɪŋ/ |
- [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 London to escape the bombing.
- Families were evacuated to safer parts of the city.
Extra ExamplesTopics Dangerc1, War and conflictc1- Every police unit has been ordered to evacuate all civilians.
- Helicopters were used to evacuate people from their homes.
- The man has now been safely evacuated to the mainland.
- to provide aircraft to help evacuate refugees
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- immediately
- safely
- successfully
- …
- help (to)
- need to
- order somebody to
- …
- from
- to
- [transitive, intransitive] evacuate (something) to move out of a place because of danger, and leave the place empty
- Employees were urged to evacuate their offices immediately.
- Locals were told to evacuate.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- immediately
- safely
- successfully
- …
- help (to)
- need to
- order somebody to
- …
- from
- to
- [transitive] evacuate something (formal) to empty your bowels
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘clear the contents of’): from Latin evacuat- ‘(of the bowels) emptied’, from the verb evacuare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + vacuus ‘empty’.