Evacuate

//ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt//

Synonyms for "evacuate" (98 found)

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Closest matches (20)

empty abandon abscond back out beat a retreat beg off blow blow out bow out breathe out ca-ca clean clean out clear clear away clear off clear out clear the decks crap cry off

Strong matches (29)

defecate depart from deplete deprive desert disappear discard discharge divest drain drop out dung eliminate emit empty out exhale exhaust exile expel expire

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forsake fume get rid of give off give out give vent to go back on

Verb(2 words)

drive empty

Related words (49)

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

7 entries

displace egest eliminate empty excrete move pass

Synonyms

1 entries

empty

Related terms

1 entries

evacuation

causes

1 entries

move

derived

5 entries

ejaculate and evacuate evacuative evacuator evacuatory self-evacuate

manner of

4 entries

displace empty excrete move

related to

17 entries

bowel deprive discharge eject empty empty out evacuation leave nullify quit remove retire vacate vacuum vessel void

Showing 16 of 17 words.

Translations

75 translations across 46 languages.

Albanian

1 entries

evakuoj verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Arabic

4 entries

أَخْلَى verb (to cause to leave or withdraw from)
أَفْرَغَ verb (to make empty; to deprive)
جَلَا verb (to cause to leave or withdraw from)
خلا verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Armenian

1 entries

էվակուացնել verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

köçürmək verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Belarusian

1 entries

эвакуі́раваць verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Bulgarian

3 entries

евакуи́рам verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)
изпра́звам verb (to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum)
изпра́зня verb (to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum)

Catalan

1 entries

evacuar verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

後送 /后送 verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)
撤離 /撤离 verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)
疏散 verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Czech

1 entries

evakuovat verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Danish

1 entries

evakuere verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Dutch

1 entries

evacueren verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Esperanto

1 entries

evakui verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Estonian

1 entries

evakueeruma verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Finnish

2 entries

evakuoida verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)
tyhjentää verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

French

1 entries

évacuer verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Georgian

1 entries

ევაკუირება verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

German

2 entries

entleeren verb (to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum)
evakuieren verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Greek

1 entries

εκκενώνω verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Hungarian

4 entries

evakuál verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)
kimenekít verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)
kitelepít verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)
kiürít verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Icelandic

1 entries

rýma verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Irish

1 entries

folmhaigh verb (to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum)

Italian

1 entries

evacuare verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Japanese

2 entries

疎開する verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)
避難する verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Kazakh

1 entries

эвакуациялау verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Khmer

1 entries

អពយព verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Korean

1 entries

비우다 verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Lao

1 entries

ອົບພະຍົບ verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Latin

1 entries

ēvacuō verb (to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum)

Latvian

1 entries

evakuēt verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Lithuanian

1 entries

evakuoti verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Macedonian

1 entries

евакуи́ра verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Māori

1 entries

whakatahi verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Norwegian Bokmål

3 entries

evakuere verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)
evakuere verb (to cause to leave or withdraw from)
evakuere verb (to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum)

Polish

1 entries

ewakuować verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Portuguese

1 entries

evacuar verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Romanian

1 entries

a evacua verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Russian

4 entries

опорожни́ть verb (to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum)
опорожня́ть verb (to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum)
опустоша́ть verb (to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum)
опустоши́ть verb (to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

evakuírati verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)
evakuísati verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)
ispražnjávati verb (to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum)
isprázniti verb (to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum)

Slovak

1 entries

evakuovať verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Slovene

1 entries

evakuirati verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Spanish

1 entries

evacuar verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Swahili

1 entries

hamisha verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Swedish

2 entries

evakuera verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)
utrymma verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Thai

1 entries

อพยพ verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Ukrainian

1 entries

евакуюва́ти verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Vietnamese

1 entries

di tản verb (to move out of an unsafe location into safety)

Sample sentences

20 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The threatening floods made it necessary to evacuate the town.

Source: tatoeba (240930)

We have less than five minutes to evacuate the whole building.

Source: tatoeba (652510)

There's a fire in the building. We have to evacuate immediately.

Source: tatoeba (954400)

There's danger that the levee will break. We have to evacuate immediately.

Source: tatoeba (954403)

Showing 4 of 20 available sentences.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.