evacuate
part of speech
verb (evacuate, evacuates, evacuated, evacuating)
meaning for a pupil
1) To evacuate a place is to leave it, or to make people leave it, because it is dangerous. tree →
2) To evacuate people is to move them to a safer place. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and safety, schools practise fire drills so they can evacuate quickly and calmly; in news and stories people are evacuated from floods, fires and storms. Phrases: «evacuate the building», «evacuation drill», «be evacuated».
examples
- We evacuated the school during the fire drill. tree →
- Walk, don't run, when you evacuate the classroom. tree →
- Families were evacuated because of the flood. tree →
- The firefighters told everyone to evacuate. tree →
- In the war, many children were evacuated to the countryside. tree →
- Line up at the meeting point after you evacuate. tree →
- Leave your bags behind when you evacuate. tree →
- Peace was then concluded, whereupon the Amazons evacuated the country. tree →
note
Regular verb. Noun: «evacuation»; a person moved away is an «evacuee». Safety: in an evacuation follow the adult in charge, leave belongings, use stairs not lifts, and go to the meeting point.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «evacuate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.