evacuate

Verb

Verb Forms: evacuated, evacuating, evacuates

• To remove people or things from a dangerous place.
• move out of an unsafe location into safety
  • "After the earthquake, residents were evacuated"
• empty completely
  • "evacuate the bottle"
• move people from their homes or country
• create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)
• excrete or discharge from the body
• To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.
• To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
• To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
• To make empty; to deprive.
• 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.

Examples

• He had to EVACUATE his previous strategy when his opponent blocked all his hooks.
• The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.
• The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.
• The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen.
• The soldiers evacuated the fortress.
• to evacuate a contract or marriage

Synonyms

empty, void

Related Words

evacuation