Vocabulary
Evacuate
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safer place.
Urdu meaning
خالی کرنا، چھوڑ آنا، خطرے کی جگہ سے نکلنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The terrible cost in human lives derives from Hamas`s heinous tactics of hiding behind civilians, their shooting of people trying to evacuate or receive assistance and their rocket fire.
- His heroic intervention, along with the efforts of local volunteers, ensured residents could evacuate before the waters came crashing down.
- We must invest in better early-warning systems, including realtime monitoring of glacial lakes and rainfall patterns, to give vulnerable communities a chance to evacuate.
- President Donald Trump`s statement on social media that `everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran` leaves little doubt of America`s direct participation in the war.
- The jail staff should have been trained to safely evacuate prisoners in case of natural disasters or other emergencies, while also ensuring they remained under the watch of law enforcers.
Synonyms
remove, clear, move out, shift, take away, turn out, expel, evict
Curator example
“several families were evacuated from their homes”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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