(~s, evacuating, ~d)
1.
To ~ someone means to send them to a place of safety, away from a dangerous building, town, or area.
They were planning to ~ the seventy American officials still in the country...
Since 1951, 18,000 people have been ~d from the area.
VERB: V n, be V-ed from
evacuation (evacuations)
...the evacuation of the sick and wounded...
An evacuation of the city’s four-million inhabitants is planned for later this week.
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2.
If people ~ a place, they move out of it for a period of time, especially because it is dangerous.
The fire is threatening about sixty homes, and residents have ~d the area...
Officials ordered the residents to ~.
VERB: V n, V
evacuation (evacuations)
...the mass evacuation of the Bosnian town of Srebrenica...
Burning sulfur from the wreck has forced evacuations from the area.
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