{
    "term": "evacuate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "evacuate",
            "heSheIt": "evacuates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "evacuated",
        "pastParticiple": "evacuated",
        "ingForm": "evacuating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to move people from a place of danger to a safer place",
            "sensetop": "evacuate somethingevacuate somebody (from…) (to…)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Police evacuated nearby buildings.",
                    "contextForm": "evacuate something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Children were evacuated from London to escape the bombing.",
                    "contextForm": "evacuate somebody (from…) (to…)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Families were evacuated to safer parts of the city."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Every police unit has been ordered to evacuate all civilians."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Helicopters were used to evacuate people from their homes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The man has now been safely evacuated to the mainland."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to provide aircraft to help evacuate refugees"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Danger", "War and conflict"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["immediately", "safely", "successfully"],
                "verb + evacuate": ["help (to)", "need to", "order somebody to"],
                "preposition": ["from", "to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to move out of a place because of danger, and leave the place empty",
            "sensetop": "evacuate (something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Employees were urged to evacuate their offices immediately."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Locals were told to evacuate."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Danger", "War and conflict"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["immediately", "safely", "successfully"],
                "verb + evacuate": ["help (to)", "need to", "order somebody to"],
                "preposition": ["from", "to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to empty your bowels",
            "sensetop": "evacuate something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈvækjueɪt/",
                "audio": "ev/evacuate/evacuate__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈvækjueɪts/",
                "audio": "ev/evacuate/evacuates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈvækjueɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "ev/evacuate/evacuated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈvækjueɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ev/evacuate/evacuating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈvækjueɪt/",
                "audio": "ev/evacuate/evacuate__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈvækjueɪts/",
                "audio": "ev/evacuate/evacuates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈvækjueɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "ev/evacuate/evacuated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈvækjueɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ev/evacuate/evacuating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "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’."
}