evacuates
- 1Third-person singular simple present of evacuate.
The captain evacuates the lower decks as soon as the flood warning sounds.
Each spring, the agency evacuates families living near the swollen river.
Note
Like any present-tense form agreeing with a singular subject, it carries the whole range of evacuate, and that range hides an ambiguity: the army evacuates the town can mean it withdraws from the town or that it clears the town of its people. Outside emergencies the verb means emptying. A pump evacuates a chamber to create a vacuum, and in medical usage the body evacuates the bowels.
evacuates is a form of evacuate
evacuate, verb: To cause or help people to leave or withdraw from a place, especially to protect them from danger. Full entry
- Forms
- evacuateevacuates he/she/itevacuating -ing formevacuated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- evacuate → evacuates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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