evacuateverb [ I or T ]
uk/ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/us/ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/to move people from a dangerous place to somewhere safe:
The police evacuated the village shortly before the explosion.
A thousand people were evacuated from their homes following the floods.
When toxic fumes began to drift toward our homes, we were told to evacuate.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- haemodialysis
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- unplug
- weed
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evacuation
noun [ C or U ] uk/ɪˌvæk.juˈeɪ.ʃən/us/ɪˌvæk.juˈeɪ.ʃən/
The evacuation of civilians remains out of the question while the fighting continues.
The first evacuations came ten days after the disaster.