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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesévacuer
Pronunciation / Transliteration: evakuer
"Il faut évacuer le bâtiment immédiatement."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
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To remove someone from a place of danger to a safer place.
"Residents were ordered to evacuate the coastal area before the hurricane struck."
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the Latin verb evacuare, meaning 'to empty out', which is formed from the prefix ex- ('out') and vacuus ('empty'). Entering Middle English in the 15th century, the term initially referred to bodily elimination or making a place empty, later evolving in the 18th and 19th centuries to denote the organized removal of people from dangerous areas.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Evacuate" is said worldwide
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évacuer
Transliteration: evakuer
"Il faut évacuer le bâtiment immédiatement."
evakuieren
Transliteration: evakuieren
"Die Polizei begann, das Dorf zu evakuieren."
evacuare
Transliteration: evacuare
"Hanno dovuto evacuare la scuola a causa dell'incendio."
evacuar
Transliteration: evacuar
"Las autoridades ordenaron evacuar la zona afectada."
evacuar
Transliteration: evacuar
"Foi necessário evacuar o prédio rapidamente."
खाली करना
Transliteration: khali karna
"बाढ़ के कारण गाँव को खाली कराना पड़ा।"
撤离
Transliteration: chèlí
"消防员要求居民迅速撤离。"
대피하다
Transliteration: daepihada
"모든 시민은 안전한 곳으로 대피해야 합니다."
避難する
Transliteration: hinan suru
"住民たちは安全な場所へ避難した。"
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