evacuate
verb
[ ɪˈvakjʊeɪt ]
• remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safer place.
• "several families were evacuated from their homes"
Similar:
remove,
clear,
move out,
shift,
take away,
turn out,
expel,
evict,
ask/force people to leave,
make people leave,
make people get out,
empty,
depopulate,
unpeople,
• remove air, water, or other contents from (a container).
• "when it springs a leak, evacuate the pond"
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘clear the contents of’): from Latin evacuat- ‘(of the bowels) emptied’, from the verb evacuare, from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out of’ + vacuus ‘empty’.
