🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

evacuar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: evacuar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Evacuate/ɪˈvækjueɪt/
verbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #3420 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Las autoridades ordenaron evacuar la zona afectada."

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1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To remove someone from a place of danger to a safer place.

    "Residents were ordered to evacuate the coastal area before the hurricane struck."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Early 17th century: from Latin evacuat- 'emptied out', from the verb evacuare, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out of' + vacuus 'empty'.

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