Meaning

6 senses
  1. (transitive)To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.

    The soldiers evacuated the fortress.

    The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.

    evakuieren

    эвакуи́роватьevakuírovatʹ

    евакуюва́тиevakujuváty

  2. To cause (or help) 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.

    entleeren

    опорожня́тьoporožnjátʹ, опорожни́тьoporožnítʹ, опустоша́тьopustošátʹ

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

  4. (figuratively)To make empty; to deprive.

  5. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bladder or the bowels (to stool).

  6. To make void; to nullify; to vacate.

    to evacuate a contract or marriage

Examples

104 sentences
  1. The people were evacuated because of the flood.

    Людей евакуювали із-за потопу. — deniko

    ruЛюдей эвакуировали из-за потопа. — saiko

    deDie Menschen wurden wegen des Hochwassers evakuiert. — xtofu80

  2. Prepare to evacuate.

    Приготуйтеся до евакуації. — deniko

    ruПриготовьтесь к эвакуации. — Inego

  3. We still have time to evacuate.

  4. We need to evacuate the building.

    ruНам нужно эвакуировать всех из здания. — marafon

  5. We have to evacuate the building.

    ruНам надо эвакуировать здание. — marafon

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to move out of an unsafe location into safety:
Русский
By meaning 2
to move out of an unsafe location into safety:
to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to move out of an unsafe location into safety:
to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum:

Origin

First attested in 1526; borrowed from Latin ēvacuātus, the perfect passive participle of ē

First attested in 1526; borrowed from Latin ēvacuātus, the perfect passive participle of ēvacuō (“to empty out, evacuate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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Forms

evacuates, evacuating, evacuated, evacuated
Base formevacuate · to evacuate
3rd person singularevacuates
Present participleevacuating
Past simpleevacuated
Past participleevacuated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyevacuate
he, she, itevacuates

Past simpleLesson

all personsevacuated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave evacuated
he, she, ithas evacuated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill evacuate

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

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