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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
evacuate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ Police cordoned off and evacuated the area, which is just yards from the Brent Cross Shopping Centre.
▪ Police evacuated the immediate area and began a meticulous search for other bombs after the second explosion.
▪ A leak of plutonium could mean evacuating a large area.
▪ A landslide also blocked the Cedar River southeast of Seattle, he said, and officials were considering evacuating area residents.
▪ They were still evacuating the area when a device exploded at the Northern Bank.
▪ In another reprocessing plant, an air monitor alarmed, and as a precaution, personnel evacuated the area.
▪ Police evacuated the area before the bomb exploded, causing only minor damage.
city
▪ I was dispatched to the grammar school, which itself had been evacuated from the big city to a small town.
▪ Indeed, rebel movements prompted international relief workers to evacuate the city Friday, fearing impending violence.
▪ Hostilities resumed when the order came to evacuate the cities.
family
▪ The boys were evacuated by the Rothschild Family and billeted in Britain.
▪ She wanted to evacuate all of her family from the North.
home
▪ More than 600 people were evacuated from their homes in Norfolk and eight bungalows collapsed after the sea washed away their foundations.
▪ About 30 police of whom a third were armed surrounded the semi-detached house and evacuated neighbouring homes.
▪ Residents within line of fire were evacuated from their homes and advised to take refuge at the Shuttle and Loom pub.
▪ In Mold, Flintshire, 100 people were evacuated from their homes.
▪ Around 100 people were evacuated from their homes and other premises in the area around the burning factory.
▪ At Bedeford, north Devon, people were evacuated from their homes as a dam holding back flood water overflowed.
▪ Several families were evacuated from their homes in Ulster last night after a bomb alert.
people
▪ Authorities began evacuating people in the state of Oaxaca as the hurricane battered villages with high winds and intense rain.
▪ A: I meant just-I meant only that the only means I could evacuate the people would be a hand grenade.
▪ Faced with conflicting advice from radio stations and the state authorities about whether to evacuate, many people just fled.
▪ A series of eruptions there in 1999 caused officials to evacuate hundreds of people.
police
▪ The police evacuated the theatre and the prefect of police banned the show.
resident
▪ A landslide also blocked the Cedar River southeast of Seattle, he said, and officials were considering evacuating area residents.
■ VERB
force
▪ This would force the military to evacuate.
▪ He said that relief workers and soldiers were now forcing people to evacuate.
▪ In fact so bad has the problem become that whole Alpine villages are being forced to evacuate themselves when the warnings sound.
▪ At the lowest point in David's fortunes he is forced to evacuate Jerusalem.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A five-block area had to be evacuated following the discovery of 500 pounds of dynamite in a house.
▪ Terra, 60 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, was evacuated as the fires threatened to spread.
▪ The stock exchange was quickly evacuated after receiving a bomb threat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Besides, he knew in his heart of hearts evacuating Heymouth was the right thing to do.
▪ He then waited until another officer took control before allowing himself to be evacuated.
▪ Last month, 400 Pittsburg residents had to be evacuated when a train hauling military explosives derailed.
▪ Local residents were evacuated in case there needed to be a controlled explosion.
▪ Part of the village was evacuated while Army bomb experts made safe the device.
▪ Police evacuated the immediate area and began a meticulous search for other bombs after the second explosion.
▪ We had to evacuate because they were afraid it was going to crack.
▪ Why the chamber should have decided to evacuate after half-a-million years stability remains a matter of conjecture.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evacuate

Evacuate \E*vac"u*ate\, v. i.

  1. To let blood [Obs.]
    --Burton.

  2. to expel stool from the bowels; to defecate.

Evacuate

Evacuate \E*vac"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evacuated; p. pr. & vb. n. Evacuating.] [l. evacuatus, p. p. of evacuare to empty, nullify; e out + vacuus empty, vacare to be empty. See Vacate.]

  1. To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.

  2. Fig.: To make empty; to deprive. [R.]

    Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important meaning.
    --Coleridge.

  3. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.

  4. To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.

    The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.
    --Burke.

  5. To make void; to nullify; to vacate; as, to evacuate a contract or marriage. [Obs.]
    --Bacon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
evacuate

1520s (trans.), from Latin evacuatus, past participle of evacuare "to empty, make void, nullify," used by Pliny in reference to the bowels, used figuratively in Late Latin for "clear out;" from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + vacuus "empty" (see vacuum).\n

\nEarliest sense in English is medical. Military use is by 1710. Meaning "remove inhabitants to safer ground" is from 1934. Intransitive sense is from 1630s; of civilian persons by 1900. Replaced Middle English evacuen "draw off or expel (humors) from the body" (c.1400). Related: Evacuated; evacuating.

Wiktionary
evacuate

vb. 1 To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress. 2 To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish. 3 (context figurative English) To make empty; to deprive. 4 To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels. 5 To make void; to nullify; to vacate.

WordNet
evacuate

  1. v. 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.) [syn: exhaust]

  5. excrete or discharge from the body [syn: void, empty]

Wikipedia
Evacuate (album)

Evacuate is the second studio album released by British punk rock band Chelsea. Originally released in 1982 by Step-Forward Records, it was reissued in 2008 by Captain Oi! Records.

Evacuate (band)

Evacuate is a 6 piece punk rock band from Southern California founded in 2007. With influences ranging from bands like the Sex Pistols, Chelsea, UK Subs, to hardcore acts like Broken Bones, Negative Approach and the English Dogs. Evacuate's releases and live sets cover a wide range of the punk rock spectrum.

Usage examples of "evacuate".

He may have thought I was just as involved in the plan to evacuate our people to the Abesse as Mother was.

We wondered for a long while why Kadra was so adamant about evacuating Tenua to the Abesse and sending her people straight into Volan hands.

The plan to evacuate the Tenuans to the Abesse was no longer the best of options.

He could see Bamaputra and Antal scrambling to destroy incriminating records as they called frantically for a ship to evacuate the installation.

In the course of this summer the two powers concluded a convention, in consequence of which the troops of Hanover evacuated Mecklenburgh, and three regiments of Brandenburgh took possession of those bailiwicks that were mortgaged to the king of Prussia.

But it must have been obvious to the senior officers concerned that the German civilians were to be bombed, their homes and belongings destroyed, and, if they were not evacuated or given adequate air-raid shelters, they would be killed, burnt and mutilated in large numbers.

After the danger of the boson became evident, the house, then the surrounding houses, then a good part of the town, had been evacuated.

He would naturally think twice before he gave an emetic or cathartic which evacuated his own pocket, and be sparing of the cholagogues that emptied the biliary ducts of his own wallet, unless he were sure they were needed.

The druggers had evacuated well before the raiders arrived, but they could have blown their base any time they wanted to.

Plans were being made to evacuate all of the dome outside the edenite safety armor.

The whole Fleet Base was evacuated to higher levels, beyond the edenite shield.

ADAM KADMON, the Primal or First Man, is the first Aziluthic emanant from the Infinite Light, immitted into the evacuated Space, and from which, afterward, all the other degrees and systems had their beginnings.

In addition, Morgan Stanley, which occupied more than 20 floors of the South Tower, evacuated its employees by the decision of company security officials.

WTC does not definitively indicate where that individual died that morning or whether he or she could have evacuated, these data strongly suggest that the evacuation was a success for civilians below the impact zone.

FDNY ordered both towers fully evacuated by 8:57,but this guidance was not conveyed to 911 operators and FDNY dispatchers, who for the next hour often continued to advise civilians not to self-evacuate, regardless of whether they were above or below the impact zones.