| 单词 | evacuate |
| 释义 | evacuate (once / 714 pages) 1v 2v 3v To evacuate is to flee, like how people leave an area when a hurricane is coming. It also means to empty something completely. If you have to evacuate your home, something horrible is probably happening, like a natural disaster. People evacuate when something like a tornado or act of terrorism makes their homes unsafe. To evacuate also means to empty completely, in the bathroom-oriented sense of evacuating (emptying) your bowels. Similarly, if a chemist empties and therefore creates a vacuum in a flask, she has evacuated the flask. When you evacuate, you clear out. WORD FAMILYevacuate: evacuated, evacuates, evacuating, evacuation+/evacuation: evacuations USAGE EXAMPLESHundreds of people were evacuated from the port-city of Valparaiso, Chile, after forest fires set homes alight. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) People inside the store were evacuated and it was closed afterward. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Three wards were evacuated for several hours after Hayden used a lighter to burn paper in a cabinet. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1v move out of an unsafe location into safety After the earthquake, residents were evacuated Hyper move change residence, affiliation, or place of employment 2v move people from their homes or country 2Hyper displace cause to move, usually with force or pressure 1v empty completely evacuate the bottle Hyper empty make void or empty of contents 2v create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel) 3Hyper empty make void or empty of contents v excrete or discharge from the body Syn|Hypo|Hyper empty, void suction empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction egest, eliminate, excrete, pass eliminate from the body |
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