The action of removing people from a dangerous area or place to take them somewhere safer.
From Latin 'evacuare' (e- 'out' + vacuare 'to empty'), meaning literally 'to make empty.' The term gained prominence during World War II for mass civilian evacuations.
During the London Blitz, over 3 million people were evacuated, and thousands of London children were sent to the countryside—creating a social experiment that literally emptied cities and changed family life in ways that echoed for decades.
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