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evacuate

/ɪvˈækjʌˌeɪt/verb4 syllables

Evacuate means: excrete or discharge from the body.

Synonyms for evacuate2

verb, as in excrete or discharge from the body

void, empty

What does evacuate mean?5

verb

1

excrete or discharge from the body

2

move out of an unsafe location into safety“After the earthquake, residents were evacuated”

3

remove content from“evacuate the bottle”

4

move people from their homes or country

5

create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Evacuate in a sentence

  • Once you evacuate, do not go back under any circumstances.urro
  • The inhibitors broke, thus the staff had to evacuate.letsgolanguages
  • Because of the volcanic eruption, many people were forced to evacuate.hcougar
  • The threatening floods made it necessary to evacuate the town.sundown
  • We have less than five minutes to evacuate the whole building.darinmex
  • The alarm rang and everyone had to evacuate.marcelostockle
  • I'll go tell everybody that we need to evacuate the building.CK
  • We don't need to evacuate anymore since the flood has already subsided.mervert1

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Forms of evacuate

as a verb

past tense
evacuated
present participle
evacuating
third-person singular
evacuates