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evacuated

v.
B2 Upper Intermediate US //iˈvækjəˌweɪtɪd// UK //ɪvˈækjuːˌeɪtɪd// evac·u·at·ed

v. to move people away from a dangerous place to a safer one. You often hear this during emergencies like fires or floods.

v. to remove persons or inhabitants from a place of danger for protective purposes; to vacate a site in response to a threat.


SIMPLE

The police evacuated the building after the fire alarm rang.

CONTEXTUAL

Emergency services worked through the night to ensure every family was evacuated before the river burst its banks.

COMPLEX

Following the discovery of an unexploded wartime bomb, authorities evacuated the entire residential block and established a two-hundred-meter safety perimeter until the device could be neutralized.

Synonyms
Usage

The verb is transitive and takes a direct object, typically the people being moved or the place being emptied.

Pitfall

The building was evacuated of people.The building was evacuated.In modern usage, you evacuate a place or evacuate the people; using 'of' to connect them is redundant and non-standard.

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