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- pronunciation:
- ih
vaek
yu
eIt
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
evacuates, evacuating, evacuated |
| definition 1: |
to remove (citizens, soldiers, or the like) from a place, esp. one considered unsafe.
The police are evacuating residents from the flood area.- synonyms:
- clear out, remove
- similar words:
- desolate, dismiss, eject, evict, oust, void
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| definition 2: |
to remove citizens, soldiers, or the like from (a place), esp. for safety.
The soldiers evacuated the area before the expected attack from the enemy.The firefighters evacuated the neighboring buildings.- synonyms:
- leave, withdraw from
- similar words:
- desolate, empty, purge, quit, vacate
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| definition 3: |
to leave (a place) because of the risk of danger.
The impending hurricane forced many to evacuate their homes. |
| definition 4: |
to discharge the contents of (one's bowel or bladder); empty.
- synonyms:
- empty, void
- similar words:
- discharge, eliminate, excrete, expel, move, unload, urinate
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| related words: |
clear, exhaust |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to leave a place or remove others from it, usu. because of danger.
- synonyms:
- retire, retreat, vacate, withdraw
- similar words:
- depart, desert, forsake, leave
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| definition 2: |
to excrete urine or feces.
- similar words:
- defecate, purge, shit, urinate
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| related words: |
empty, remove, vacate |
adverb + (v.)evacuate
approximately, briefly, downtown, forcibly, medically, safely, successfully, temporarily
(v.)evacuate
+ adverb
immediately, inland, yesterday
(v.)evacuate
+ noun
advance,
aircraft,
apartment,
area,
battlefield,
beach,
bomb,
bowel,
building,
casualty,
citizen,
city,
co-worker,
coast,
commander,
concourse,
embassy,
emergency,
fighting,
fire,
firefighter,
flood,
home,
hospital,
hundreds,
hurricane,
mainland,
marine,
national,
nursing,
orphan,
plane,
plaza,
precaution,
premise,
refugee,
settlement,
settler,
shelter,
soldier,
storm,
survivor,
terminal,
thousands,
tower,
town,
train,
uterus,
village
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| derivation: |
evacuator (n.) |
The word evacuate
contains the following parts:
e-
Latin
prefix
that means out, out of, away
  More about this word part:
The prefix e-
is an assimilated form of ex- used before roots beginning with certain consonants (b d, g, j, l, m, n, r, v). See ex-.
Example words:
ebullient, edentulous, edict, educate, educe, egregious, egress, ejaculate, eject, elaborate, elate, elect, elicit, elide, eligible, elite, elocution, elongate, eloquence, eloquent, elucidate, elude, emaciate, emancipate, emasculate, emend, emerge, emergency, emigrate, eminent, emissary, emit, emollient, emolument, emulsion, enervate, enormity, enormous, enumerate, enunciate, eradicate, erase, erode, eruct, erudite, erupt, evacuate, evade, evaluate, evanesce, event, eventuate, evert, evict, evident, evocative, evoke, evolution, evolve, ineluctable, ineradicable
vac
Latin
root
that means empty
Example words:
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, abnegate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, adjudicate, administrate, administrative, administrator, advocate, aerate, affiliate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggravate, agitate, alienate, allocate, alternate, animate, annihilate, annotate, arrogate, aspirate, assimilate, associate, calibrate, capitulate, cerebrate, circulate, collaborate, collocate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, consummate, cooperate, coordinate, decapitate, decelerate, decerebrate, decimate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, derogate, desecrate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, dissimulate, dissociate, divagate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, elongate, elucidate, emasculate, emigrate, enervate, enunciate, equate, equivocate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, exfoliate, expurgate, fluctuate, formulate, generate, gradate, graduate, gyrate, illuminate, illustrate, implicate, incorporate, indoctrinate, innovate, interpellate, interrogate, irradiate, irrigate, legislate, liberate, locate, mediate, motivate, narrate, navigate, negate, nominate, obliterate, operate, orate, originate, ovulate, palpate, participate, placate, populate, prognosticate, proliferate, radiate, regulate, resonate, rotate, segregate, simulate, subjugate, terminate, vacate, validate, contraindicate
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