evacuate
verb[IorT]
uk/ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/us/ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/tomovepeoplefrom adangerousplacetosomewheresafe:
(把人从危险的地方)撤离,撤出,疏散,转移Thepoliceevacuated thevillageshortlybefore theexplosion.在爆炸前不久,警察将这个村庄里的人全都疏散了。
A thousandpeoplewere evacuatedfromtheirhomesfollowingthefloods.洪水爆发后,有1000人撤离了他们的家园。
Whentoxicfumesbegantodrifttowardourhomes, we were told to evacuate.当有毒烟雾开始朝我们住宅区方向飘移时,我们被通知撤离。
formal
toemptysomething ofitscontents,especiallythebowels:
Thehorseevacuateditsbowelsall over thepath.
productsthatstimulatethebowelto evacuateitscontents
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandonment
- banish
- be scattered to the four windsidiom
- bin
- castsomeone/somethingaside/away/off
- dumping
- eradication
- erase
- erasure
- evacuation
- exorcism
- expunge
- fling
- scrape
- shoo
- shrug
- shrugsomethingoff
- shuck
- shucksomethingoff
- sling
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