Evacuate
verb
To leave a place because it is not safe.
The residents had to evacuate the town due to the wildfire.
Often appears as...
- evacuate the area
- evacuate the building
verb
To remove someone from a dangerous place to a safe place.
The firefighters evacuated the children from the burning school.
Often appears as...
- evacuate people
- evacuate residents
verb
To empty something out, usually by force.
The doctor had to evacuate the abscess of its pus.
Often appears as...
- evacuate the abscess
- evacuate fluid
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To leave a place because it is not safe.
The residents had to evacuate the town due to the wildfire.
Often appears as...
- evacuate the area
- evacuate the building
verb
To remove someone from a dangerous place to a safe place.
The firefighters evacuated the children from the burning school.
Often appears as...
- evacuate people
- evacuate residents
verb
To empty something out, usually by force.
The doctor had to evacuate the abscess of its pus.
Often appears as...
- evacuate the abscess
- evacuate fluid
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Safety First
Use 'evacuate' to emphasize the urgency of leaving a place to avoid danger or harm.
Authorities ordered to evacuate the area immediately due to the approaching hurricane.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Voluntary
'Evacuate' implies leaving is not a choice, but a necessity for safety.
Due to the gas leak, the police instructed residents to evacuate their homes.
Pro Tip 3/3Large-Scale Actions
Typically involves groups of people or entire communities, not single individuals.
Volunteers helped evacuate the city as the river levels continued to rise.
Pro Tip 1/3Safety First
Use 'evacuate' to emphasize the urgency of leaving a place to avoid danger or harm.
Authorities ordered to evacuate the area immediately due to the approaching hurricane.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Voluntary
'Evacuate' implies leaving is not a choice, but a necessity for safety.
Due to the gas leak, the police instructed residents to evacuate their homes.
Pro Tip 3/3Large-Scale Actions
Typically involves groups of people or entire communities, not single individuals.
Volunteers helped evacuate the city as the river levels continued to rise.
Pro Tip 1/3Safety First
Use 'evacuate' to emphasize the urgency of leaving a place to avoid danger or harm.
Authorities ordered to evacuate the area immediately due to the approaching hurricane.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Voluntary
'Evacuate' implies leaving is not a choice, but a necessity for safety.
Due to the gas leak, the police instructed residents to evacuate their homes.
Pro Tip 3/3Large-Scale Actions
Typically involves groups of people or entire communities, not single individuals.
Volunteers helped evacuate the city as the river levels continued to rise.
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Video examples
Surviving a nuclear...
know that it was over there the blast and you're going this way as long as you're going across crosswise to the wind once you're out and evacuating you want to keep as much of your skin your mouth and nose covered as long as that covering doesn't impede you moving and getting out of there and finally you
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People Don’t Listen PIPE...
near as these people will ever get to being in a plane crash without leaving the ground so we just had an evacuation if this were a real-life horrible situation how would people have fared what everyone have survived probably not they didn't follow instructions if it had been a worst-case
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Chinaka Hodge: What will...
But speak to your girls of this wartime, a year preceded by a score of the same, so as in two decades before, we wiped our eyes, laced caskets with flags, evacuated the crime scene of the club, caterwauled in the street, laid our bodies on the concrete against the outlines of our fallen,
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Jennifer B. Nuzzo: 3...
standards that inform the design and construction of buildings to make them more resistant to fire and to protect the people that occupy them. We installed fire alarms so that we could detect and pinpoint fires in buildings as soon as they occur and alert people of the need to evacuate.
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Shweta Narayan: It's...
the state that I live in, forced hospitals to evacuate patients, suspend surgeries and critical care. Others faced power outages, many reported destruction of the entire stocks of vaccines and medical supplies. And similar experiences have been documented in other parts of the world.
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Holly Morris: Why stay...
They're called self-settlers. And almost all of them are women, the men having shorter lifespans in part due to overuse of alcohol, cigarettes, if not radiation. Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated at the time of the accident, but not everybody accepted that fate.
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The ecological structure...
they helped open the door to evacuating tens of thousands of injured civilians to get them urgent medical care in Jordan and in fact the collaboration had to be kept secret because of a fear of retaliation from the Libyan regime and today is the first time it's ever been
Video examples
Becci Manson:...
of the personal loss these people had felt. As they had run from the wave, and for their lives, absolutely everything they had, everything had to be left behind. At the end of my first week there, I found myself helping out in an evacuation center in the town.
Video examples
Lifelike simulations...
they would be prepared for the worst. In fact, the airline industry has gone as far as to create fuselages of simulation environments, because of the importance of the team coming together. This is an evacuation drill simulator.
Video examples
Ants Ingenious Survival...
the ants start an evacuation moving the nest to higher ground it's women and children first as the ants carry the queen
Video examples
Surviving a nuclear...
know that it was over there the blast and you're going this way as long as you're going across crosswise to the wind once you're out and evacuating you want to keep as much of your skin your mouth and nose covered as long as that covering doesn't impede you moving and getting out of there and finally you
Video examples
People Don’t Listen PIPE...
near as these people will ever get to being in a plane crash without leaving the ground so we just had an evacuation if this were a real-life horrible situation how would people have fared what everyone have survived probably not they didn't follow instructions if it had been a worst-case
Video examples
Chinaka Hodge: What will...
But speak to your girls of this wartime, a year preceded by a score of the same, so as in two decades before, we wiped our eyes, laced caskets with flags, evacuated the crime scene of the club, caterwauled in the street, laid our bodies on the concrete against the outlines of our fallen,
Video examples
Jennifer B. Nuzzo: 3...
standards that inform the design and construction of buildings to make them more resistant to fire and to protect the people that occupy them. We installed fire alarms so that we could detect and pinpoint fires in buildings as soon as they occur and alert people of the need to evacuate.
Video examples
Shweta Narayan: It's...
the state that I live in, forced hospitals to evacuate patients, suspend surgeries and critical care. Others faced power outages, many reported destruction of the entire stocks of vaccines and medical supplies. And similar experiences have been documented in other parts of the world.
Video examples
Holly Morris: Why stay...
They're called self-settlers. And almost all of them are women, the men having shorter lifespans in part due to overuse of alcohol, cigarettes, if not radiation. Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated at the time of the accident, but not everybody accepted that fate.
Video examples
The ecological structure...
they helped open the door to evacuating tens of thousands of injured civilians to get them urgent medical care in Jordan and in fact the collaboration had to be kept secret because of a fear of retaliation from the Libyan regime and today is the first time it's ever been
Video examples
Becci Manson:...
of the personal loss these people had felt. As they had run from the wave, and for their lives, absolutely everything they had, everything had to be left behind. At the end of my first week there, I found myself helping out in an evacuation center in the town.
Video examples
Lifelike simulations...
they would be prepared for the worst. In fact, the airline industry has gone as far as to create fuselages of simulation environments, because of the importance of the team coming together. This is an evacuation drill simulator.
Video examples
Ants Ingenious Survival...
the ants start an evacuation moving the nest to higher ground it's women and children first as the ants carry the queen
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Sherri Shepherd
American Entertainer
Working with Tracy Morgan on '30 Rock' is really great. I love Tracy. He's wonderful. Well, until his fish tank caught fire - his apartment burned up and flooded my apartment. We live in the same building, but I'm eight floors below him and we had to evacuate.
Quote examples
Jesmyn Ward
American Novelist
My family has been poor and working-class for generations. And we live - I live in this really small community in Southern Mississippi where you don't evacuate, and you have never evacuated because there are too many people in your family to evacuate.
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Anne Perry
British Novelist
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Indian Author
I was caught on the freeway for hours when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The entire city had to be evacuated. I observed lives threatened by catastrophes and a whole range of behaviour. What could people do during a crisis?
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Ingrid Newkirk
British Activist
It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.
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Nina Bawden
British Writer
I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.
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Heinrich Boll
German Writer
As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.
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Michael Chertoff
American Public Servant
So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place.
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Paul Watson
Canadian Environmentalist
I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate.
Quote examples
Yoko Ono
American Artist
In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
Quote examples
Sherri Shepherd
American Entertainer
Working with Tracy Morgan on '30 Rock' is really great. I love Tracy. He's wonderful. Well, until his fish tank caught fire - his apartment burned up and flooded my apartment. We live in the same building, but I'm eight floors below him and we had to evacuate.
Quote examples
Jesmyn Ward
American Novelist
My family has been poor and working-class for generations. And we live - I live in this really small community in Southern Mississippi where you don't evacuate, and you have never evacuated because there are too many people in your family to evacuate.
Quote examples
Anne Perry
British Novelist
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
Quote examples
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Indian Author
I was caught on the freeway for hours when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The entire city had to be evacuated. I observed lives threatened by catastrophes and a whole range of behaviour. What could people do during a crisis?
Quote examples
Ingrid Newkirk
British Activist
It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.
Quote examples
Nina Bawden
British Writer
I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.
Quote examples
Heinrich Boll
German Writer
As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.
Quote examples
Michael Chertoff
American Public Servant
So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place.
Quote examples
Paul Watson
Canadian Environmentalist
I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate.
Quote examples
Yoko Ono
American Artist
In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
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