Antonyms for evacuate
ɪˈvæk yuˌeɪtevac·u·ate

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1. evacuate

   Antonyms:
   occupy, seize, fill, hold

   Synonyms:
   void, abandon, desert

Matched Categories

1. • Displace
   • Empty
   • Move

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1. evacuateverb

   move out of an unsafe location into safety

   "After the earthquake, residents were evacuated"

   Synonyms:
   void, empty

2. evacuateverb

   empty completely

   "evacuate the bottle"

   Synonyms:
   void, empty

3. evacuateverb

   move people from their homes or country

   Synonyms:
   void, empty

4. evacuateverb

   create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)

   Synonyms:
   void, empty

5. evacuate, void, emptyverb

   excrete or discharge from the body

   Synonyms:
   discharge, void, empty, nullify, abandon, vacate, avoid, annul, vitiate, invalidate, quash

How to use evacuate in a sentence?

1. Stuart Scheller:

   I’m not saying we’ve got to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying: Did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone?’ did anyone do that? And when you didn’t think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up?'.

2. Otero County:

   We’ve got people up there( at Sunspot) that requested us to standby while they evacuate it. Nobody would really elaborate on any of the circumstances as to why. The FBI were up there. What their purpose was nobody will say. but for The FBI to get involved that quick and be so secretive about The FBI, there was a lot of stuff going on up there.

3. Tom Bradby:

   We’re not quite sure what to do about it, so I’m really, really sorry about this, but I’m afraid we have to evacuate the building.

4. Erik Edstrom:

   The very fact that you need several hundred people doing this around the clock of their own volition -- with some even taking time off of work to do it -- means that there is an absolute logistical failure on behalf of the Erik Edstrom government, the Biden administration and the government as a whole should have seen this coming. They should have done capacity planning and properly forecasted what it would have taken to evacuate all Americans and Afghan allies, by location.

5. Brink Fidler:

   The only victims this shooter was able to get to were victims that were stuck in some sort of open area or hallway, several were able to evacuate safely. The ones that couldn’t do that safely did exactly what they were taught and trained to do.

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