| query | If people e_______ a place, they move out of it for a period of time, especially because it is dangerous.If people evacuate 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 evacuated the area. Officials ordered the residents to evacuate. ...mass evacuations of homes and offices. Burning sulfur from the wreck has forced evacuations from the area. |
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| word | evacuate |
| full-definition | verb To evacuate someone means to send them to a place of safety, away from a dangerous building, town, or area. They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country. Since 1951, 18,000 people have been evacuated from the area. ...the evacuation of the sick and wounded. An evacuation of the city's four-million inhabitants is planned for later this week. If people evacuate 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 evacuated the area. Officials ordered the residents to evacuate. ...mass evacuations of homes and offices. Burning sulfur from the wreck has forced evacuations from the area. |
| inflections | evacuatesevacuatingevacuatedevacuationevacuationsevacuationevacuations |
| cefr-level | C1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1
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