English Synonym Finder

evacuate

Definitions

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

To empty a place, container, or area of its contents or occupants.

To discharge waste matter from the body.

Examples

The authorities ordered the residents to evacuate the coastal area before the hurricane made landfall.

Firefighters helped evacuate the building safely after the smoke alarm was triggered.

Synonyms

vacate clear out abandon withdraw desert remove depart

Antonyms

occupy inhabit fill enter stay remain populate