evacuate
Meaning of evacuate
- remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safer place.
several families were evacuated from their homes
- remove air, water, or other contents from (a container).
when it springs a leak, evacuate the pond
late Middle English (in the sense ‘clear the contents of’): from Latin evacuat- ‘(of the bowels) emptied’, from the verb evacuare, from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out of’ + vacuus ‘empty’.
Information about evacuate
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of evacuate is: evacuates.
- Languages in which evacuate is used:
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Hyphenation of evacuate
evac-u-ate
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- evacuate is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
evacuate synonyms
Meaning exhaust:
Meaning void:
Meaning take (something) away or off from the position occupied:
Meaning cause people to leave (a building or place):
Meaning move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance:
Meaning force out (something), especially from the body:
Meaning expel (someone) from a property, especially with the support of the law:
Meaning substantially reduce the population of (an area):
Meaning dramatically reduce the population of an area; depopulate:
Translation of evacuate
Words that rhyme with evacuate
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