evacuate

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• /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/
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First attested in 1526; borrowed from Latin ēvacuātus, the perfect passive participle of ēvacuō (“to empty out, evacuate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

76 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: evakuoj — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Arabic: خلا (ḵalā) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Armenian: էվակուացնել (ēvakuacʻnel) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Azerbaijani: köçürmək — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Belarusian: эвакуі́раваць (evakuíravacʹ) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Bulgarian: евакуи́рам (evakuíram) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Catalan: evacuar — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Chinese Mandarin: 撤離 /撤离 (chèlí) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Chinese Mandarin: 疏散 (shūsàn) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Chinese Mandarin: 後送 /后送 (hòusòng) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Czech: evakuovat — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Danish: evakuere — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Dutch: evacueren — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Esperanto: evakui — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Estonian: evakueeruma — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Finnish: tyhjentää — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Finnish: evakuoida — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• French: évacuer — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Georgian: ევაკუირება (evaḳuireba) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• German: evakuieren — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Greek: εκκενώνω (ekkenóno) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Hungarian: kiürít — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Hungarian: evakuál — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Hungarian: kitelepít — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Hungarian: kimenekít — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Icelandic: rýma — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Italian: evacuare — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Japanese: 疎開する (sokai suru) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Japanese: 避難する (hinan suru) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Kazakh: эвакуациялау (évakuasiälau) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Khmer: អពយព (ʼɑppyup) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Korean: 비우다 (biuda) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Lao: ອົບພະຍົບ (ʼop pha nyop) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Latvian: evakuēt — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Lithuanian: evakuoti — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Macedonian: евакуи́ра (evakuíra) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Māori: whakatahi — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Marshallese: eakto — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Norwegian Bokmål: evakuere — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Polish: ewakuować — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Portuguese: evacuar — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Romanian: a evacua — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Russian: эвакуи́ровать (evakuírovatʹ) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Serbo-Croatian: евакуи́рати — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Serbo-Croatian: евакуи́сати — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Serbo-Croatian: evakuírati — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Serbo-Croatian: evakuísati — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Slovak: evakuovať — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Slovene: evakuirati — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Spanish: evacuar — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Swahili: hamisha — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Swedish: evakuera — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Swedish: utrymma — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Thai: อพยพ (òp-pá-yóp) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Ukrainian: евакуюва́ти (evakujuváty) — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Vietnamese: di tản — to move out of an unsafe location into safety
• Arabic: جَلَا (jalā) — to cause to leave or withdraw from
• Arabic: أَخْلَى (ʔaḵlā) — to cause to leave or withdraw from
• Norwegian Bokmål: evakuere — to cause to leave or withdraw from
• Arabic: فَرَّغَ (farraḡa) — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• Arabic: خَلَّى (ḵallā) — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• Bulgarian: изпра́звам (izprázvam) — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• Bulgarian: изпра́зня (izpráznja) — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• German: entleeren — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• Irish: folmhaigh — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• Latin: ēvacuō — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• Norwegian Bokmål: evakuere — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• Russian: опорожня́ть (oporožnjátʹ) — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• Russian: опорожни́ть (oporožnítʹ) — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• Russian: опустоша́ть (opustošátʹ) — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• Russian: опустоши́ть (opustošítʹ) — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• Serbo-Croatian: испражња́вати — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• Serbo-Croatian: испра́знити — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• Serbo-Croatian: ispražnjávati — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• Serbo-Croatian: isprázniti — to make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum
• Arabic: أَفْرَغَ (ʔafraḡa) — to make empty; to deprive