evacuate
(verb)
verb
1. move out of an unsafe location into safety
- After the earthquake, residents were evacuated
Definition categories: motion, move
2. empty completely
- evacuate the bottle
Definition categories: change, empty
3. move people from their homes or country
Definition categories: motion, displace
4. create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)
Definition categories: change, empty
5. excrete or discharge from the body
Definition categories: body, egest, eliminate, excrete, pass
Sentences with evacuate as a verb:
- The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.
- The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen.