🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

避難する

Pronunciation / Transliteration: hinan suru

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Evacuate/ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"住民たちは安全な場所へ避難した。"

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1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To remove someone from a place of danger to a safer place.

    "Residents were ordered to evacuate the coastal area before the hurricane struck."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'evacuate' originates from the Latin 'evacuare', meaning 'to empty out'. It evolved through Middle French 'évacuer' in the 15th century, retaining the core meaning of removing or emptying a space, particularly in contexts of safety and emergency.

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