Meaning & use
evacuate
To leave or remove people from a dangerous place to somewhere safer.
See it in a sentence
Officials ordered residents to evacuate the coastal town before the hurricane made landfall.
Firefighters helped evacuate the building after smoke was detected on the third floor.
A note on using this word
Evacuate can take a person or a place as its object, as in evacuate the residents or evacuate the building.
Words with a similar meaning
relocatewithdraw
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