the act of removing people from a place, usually because of danger or emergency.
From Latin 'evacuare,' combining 'ex-' (out) and 'vacuare' (to empty). The meaning has consistently referred to emptying a place.
During the Blitz in WWII, thousands of British children were evacuated from cities, separating families for years—evacuation remains one of history's most traumatic mass movements of people!
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