evacuate

evacuate

English

Etymology

From Latin evacuare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/

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Verb

evacuate (third-person singular simple present evacuates, present participle evacuating, simple past and past participle evacuated)

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.

   • 1757, Edmund Burke, The Abridgement of the History of England

     The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.

2. To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.

   The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.

   • 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 327:

     Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.

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.

4. (figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
   • 1825, James Marsh, Preliminary Essay to Aids to Reflection

     Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important doctrines.

5. To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
6. To make void; to nullify; to vacate.

   to evacuate a contract or marriage

   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, OCLC 1086746628:

     it would not evacuate a marriage after cohabitation and actual consummation

Derived terms

• self-evacuate

Related terms

• evacuation (noun)

Descendants

• → Cebuano: bakwit
  • → English: bakwit
• → Tagalog: ebak

Translations

to move out of an unsafe location into safety

Akan: please add this translation if you can Albanian: evakuoj Arabic: جَلَا‎ (jalā) Armenian: էվակուացնել (hy) (ēvakuacʿnel) Azerbaijani: köçürmək (az) Belarusian: эвакуі́раваць impf or pf (evakuíravacʹ) Bulgarian: евакуи́рам (bg) impf or pf (evakuíram) Catalan: evacuar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: (evacuating from a place) 撤離／撤离 (zh) (chèlí), (evacuating people) 疏散 (zh) (shūsàn), (military) 後送／后送 (zh) (hòusòng) Czech: evakuovat (cs) impf or pf Danish: evakuere (da) Dutch: evacueren (nl) Esperanto: evakui Estonian: evakueeruma Finnish: tyhjentää (fi), evakuoida (fi) French: évacuer (fr) Georgian: ევაკუირება (evaḳuireba) German: evakuieren (de) Greek: εκκενώνω (el) (ekkenóno) Hungarian: kiürít (hu), evakuál (hu), kitelepít (hu), kimenekít Icelandic: rýma Italian: evacuare (it) Japanese: 避難する (ja) (ひなんする, hinan suru) Kazakh: эвакуациялау (evakuasiälau) Khmer: អពយព (km) (ʼɑppyup) Korean: 비우다 (ko) (biuda) Lao: ອົບພະຍົບ (lo) (ʼop pha nyop) Latvian: evakuēt Lithuanian: evakuoti Macedonian: евакуи́ра impf or pf (evakuíra) Maori: whakatahi Norwegian: Bokmål: evakuere Polish: ewakuować (pl) impf or pf Portuguese: evacuar (pt) Romanian: a evacua (ro) Russian: эвакуи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (evakuírovatʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: евакуи́рати impf or pf, евакуи́сати impf or pf Roman: evakuírati (sh) impf or pf, evakuísati impf or pf Slovak: evakuovať impf or pf Slovene: evakuirati impf or pf Spanish: evacuar (es) Swedish: evakuera (sv), utrymma (sv) Thai: อพยพ (th) (òp-pá-yóp) Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: евакуюва́ти impf or pf (evakujuváty) Vietnamese: di tản

to cause to leave or withdraw from

Arabic: جَلَا‎ (jalā), أَخْلَى‎ (ʾaḵlā) Norwegian: Bokmål: evakuere

to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum

Arabic: فَرَّغَ‎ (farraḡa), خَلَّى‎ (ḵallā) Bulgarian: изпра́звам (bg) impf (izprázvam), изпра́зня pf (izpráznja) German: entleeren (de) Irish: folmhaigh Latin: ēvacuō Norwegian: Bokmål: evakuere Russian: опорожня́ть (ru) impf (oporožnjátʹ), опорожни́ть (ru) pf (oporožnítʹ), опустоша́ть (ru) impf (opustošátʹ), опустоши́ть (ru) pf (opustošítʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: испражња́вати impf, испра́знити pf Roman: ispražnjávati (sh) impf, isprázniti (sh) pf

to make empty; to deprive

Arabic: أَفْرَغَ‎ (ʾafraḡa)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.vaˈkwa.te/, (traditional) /e.va.kuˈa.te/[1]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: e‧va‧cuà‧te, (traditional) e‧va‧cu‧à‧te

Verb

evacuate

1. inflection of evacuare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

evacuate f pl

1. feminine plural of evacuato

Adjective

evacuate f pl

1. feminine plural of evacuato

Noun

evacuate f pl

1. plural of evacuata

References

1. evacuo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Latin

Verb

ēvacuāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēvacuō