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# evacuate

verb (evacuate, evacuates, evacuated, evacuating)

«evacuate» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To evacuate a place is to leave it, or to make people leave it, because it is dangerous. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuate/#m1)
2. To evacuate people is to move them to a safer place. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuate/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and safety, schools practise fire drills so they can evacuate quickly and calmly; in news and stories people are evacuated from floods, fires and storms. Phrases: «evacuate the building», «evacuation drill», «be evacuated».

### Examples

- We evacuated the school during the fire drill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuate/#x1)
- Walk, don't run, when you evacuate the classroom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuate/#x2)
- Families were evacuated because of the flood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuate/#x3)
- The firefighters told everyone to evacuate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuate/#x4)
- In the war, many children were evacuated to the countryside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuate/#x5)
- Line up at the meeting point after you evacuate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuate/#x6)
- Leave your bags behind when you evacuate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuate/#x7)
- Peace was then concluded, whereupon the Amazons evacuated the country. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuate/#x8)

### Note

Regular verb. Noun: «evacuation»; a person moved away is an «evacuee». Safety: in an evacuation follow the adult in charge, leave belongings, use stairs not lifts, and go to the meeting point.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «evacuate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«evacuate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/evacuate.html) on Mova free.