Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Having had population removed, by evacuation.
- adj. Containing a vacuum.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of evacuate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. p. p. of evacuate.
- adj. emptied of gas by being pumped out or having a vacuum created.
Examples
“Most residents have been evacuated from the area, and there were no immediate reports of casualties from the latest blast.”
“Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images Despite the risk and warnings from officials, thousands of people who had been evacuated from the danger zone rushed back Sunday morning, piling into trucks, cars and on the backs of motorcycles to check on their livestock high up on the scorched slopes.”
“Dozens of people were evacuated from the building, which is about halfway between 14th and 15th streets Northwest.”
The Washington Post: Two injured in apartment fire at 14th St., R.I. Ave.
“Spears really did build a machine that he claimed filled up with a spiritual essence evacuated from the womb of his devoted compatriot, a lady never named in any source I could find.”
“Rescue efforts in the remote indigenous village continued on Wednesday, as scores of residents were evacuated from the rain-drenched area.”
Voice of America: Mexico Revises Casualties From Tuesday's Massive Landslide
“It landed on the floor after it hit the screen, but the AA batteries were worse for the wear as they had been evacuated from the remote mid air.”
The Huffington Post: Kari Gremore: An All-American Tea Party
“Skeptics will claim that a basic agreement in principle on which settlements are going to stay in Israel and which are going to be evacuated, is not possible in 60 days.”
“Mr. Edano, 47 years old, succeeds Yoshio Hachiro, who quit Saturday only eight days into the job, after he referred to the evacuated areas around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant as "a town of death" and allegedly joked about radiation with reporters.”
The Wall Street Journal: Noda Scrambles to Fill Minister Post
“Since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began, about 175 troops with catastrophic head injuries have been evacuated from the war zones only to die later of their wounds, says Army Col. Brian Eastridge, director of the Joint Theater Trauma System.”
Military ruling offers 'closure' for family of brain-dead troops
“All the legislators are alive, evacuated from the parliament and safe," Interfax quoted Mr. Kadyrov as saying.”
The Wall Street Journal: Militants Attack Chechen Parliament
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