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(evacuates, evacuating, evacuated) 1. 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. VERB: V n, be V-ed from • evacuation (evacuations) ...the evacuation of the sick and wounded... An evacuation of the city’s four-million inhabitants is planned for later this week. N-VAR 2. 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. VERB: V n, V • evacuation (evacuations) ...the mass evacuation of the Bosnian town of Srebrenica... Burning sulfur from the wreck has forced evacuations from the area. N-VAR
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verb (-ated; -ating) Etymology: Middle English, to draw off morbid humors, from Latin evacuatus, past participle of evacuare to empty, from e- + vacuus empty Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to remove the contents of ; empty 2. to discharge from the body as waste ; void 3. to remove something (as gas or water) from especially by pumping 4. a. to remove especially from a military zone or dangerous area b. to withdraw from military occupation of c. vacate were ordered to ~ the building intransitive verb 1. to withdraw from a place in an organized way especially for protection 2. to pass urine or feces from the body • evacuative adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. 1 a remove (people) from a place of danger to stay elsewhere for the duration of the danger. b empty (a place) in this way. 2 make empty (a vessel of air etc.). 3 (of troops) withdraw from (a place). 4 a empty (the bowels or other bodily organ). b discharge (faeces etc.). Derivatives evacuant n. & adj. evacuation n. evacuative adj. & n. evacuator n. Etymology: L evacuare (as E-, vacuus empty) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) удалять (что-л. из сосуда, аппарата) 2) откачивать; разрежать; вакуумировать, создавать вакуум 3) срабатывать, опорожнять (водохранилище) 4) эвакуировать ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
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1. эвакуировать (население, раненых) to evacuate the civilians —- эвакуировать гражданское население during the war thousands of children were evacuated from the industrial to rural areas —- во время войны тысячи детей были вывезены из промышленных районов в сельские 2. эвакуироваться 3. очищать, освобождать they were ordered to evacuate the building —- им было предложено очистить дом 4. воен. выводить (войска); оставлять (место) the garrison evacuated the fort —- гарнизон очистил форт 5. опорожнять, очищать (от содержимого) 6. мед. опорожнять; очищать (желудок) 7. мед. удалять, отсасывать, высасывать, откачивать (гной) 8. тех. откачивать (воздух), создавать вакуум ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. 1) эвакуировать, вывозить (to) All the London children were evacuated to the country, where they would be safe from the bombing. 2) опорожнять; мед очищать (желудок и т.п.) 3) tech. откачивать, разрежать (воздух) ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 to send people to a safe place from a dangerous place (evacuate sb from/to) (The villagers were evacuated to the countryside.) 2 to empty a place by making all the people leave (The whole building has been evacuated.) 3 formal to empty your bowels - evacuation n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 14c., from L. evacuatus, pp. of evacuare "empty," also, in L.L. "clear out," from ex- "out" + vacuus "empty." Earliest sense in Eng. is medical. Meaning "remove inhabitants to safer ground" is from 1934. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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