Crossword clues for evacuee
evacuee
- Rescued disaster victim
- Person taken from danger
- One getting away
- Red Cross beneficiary, perhaps
- Person who has been transported out of a war zone, for example
- Person removed from danger zone
- One taken out
- One now safe
- One leaving before a storm
- One gone
- One getting out
- One fleeing to safety
- One fleeing a flood, perhaps
- One fleeing a flood, maybe
- Bolter before a hurricane, perhaps
- One leaving home, perhaps
- Hurricane survivor, maybe
- One who's withdrawn?
- Runner from a bomb scare, e.g.
- A person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place
- Survivor of Dunkirk: 1940
- Émigré of a sort
- One in a Red Cross shelter
- Bikini native, for one
- One moved from danger
- Person moved from danger
- Person moved away from a dangerous place
- One out
- One getting out before the storm
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1934, from French évacué, from évacuer, from Latin evacuare "to empty" (see evacuate) + -ee. Evacuant (n.) was used from 1730s in medicine.
Wiktionary
n. A person who has been evacuated, especially a civilian evacuated from a dangerous place in time of war
WordNet
n. a person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place
Usage examples of "evacuee".
Raya made her way into the corridor to find Blee weaving around other evacuees as she maneuvered up the passageway toward her.
I lifted the bag of bones onto the back of the truck, oblivious to its shrivelled eyes, like black raisins above its yawning, meatless mouth, and it slithered down at me from the pile, a reluctant evacuee.
Because the evacuees are attuned to the forms, genres, and in fact the larger aesthetics of television, they experience a lack, a sense of emptiness.
But at least swimming was not going to be necessary, for now just ahead another sergeant with another pocket flash was lighting the file of evacuees into a doorway set into the curved concrete of the tunnel wall.
He and his copilot would be carrying only about a hundred passengers, the last group of evacuees, on the return flight.
Once outside the hotel, evacuees were herded to a side street, two blocks away, where police cars bad been parked to form a barricade.
Han, a group of evacuees holding him by the legs, reached desperately for Chewie.
A task forced designated meeting points everywhere in Saigon where last-minute evacuees would board buses or get on helicopters to leave the country.
The Vietnamese government had passed the word that no military-age, Vietnamese males would be allowed to evacuate or get out as evacuees or refugees.
As those on the skimmer looked on, the evacuees began staggering down the trail leading to the harbor below.
And the main personnel banks on the Garneau and the Bondar could retrieve more than one hundred evacuees every minute between them.
Ashen faces masked with cloth against the mephitic air, Gyndine's would-be evacuees did all they could to ensure their survival.
And it was not a life much touched by war, either, save for the pale faces of the evacuee children on some of the nearby farms, the barbed wire along the beach near Lyme Regis, and the chronic shortage of teaching staff- a shortage which meant that when the Michaelmas term began in the autumn of 1942, Hester was having to take divinity (her usual subject) and English and some Latin and Greek.
Now which would you rather be doing for the next six hours - commanding a troop or slogs to feny the dirt farmers back and forth, with some twobracelet type watching your every move, or taking your pick of what the evacuees left behind in their hurry?
Some surrogate parents and some evacuees crossed boundaries and it worked.