What's the difference between evacuate and flee?

Evacuate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To make empty; to deprive.
  • (v. t.) To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
  • (v. t.) To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.
  • (v. t.) To make void; to nullify; to vacate; as, to evacuate a contract or marriage.
  • (v. i.) To let blood

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
  • (2) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
  • (3) A therapeutic approach is suggested which emphasizes specific antibiotic regimens appropriate to the primary site of infection and prompt neurosurgical intervention with evacuation of the subdural spaces bilaterally.
  • (4) Today we have evacuated six bodies from inside the fuselage,” Supriyadi said on Friday.
  • (5) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
  • (6) This may be due to changes in the gastroduodenal pressure gradient induced by evacuating the stomach.
  • (7) We conclude that these good results are due to the short interval between accident and operation as well as to the evacuation of the intraarticular hematoma, together with a stable internal fixation and functional rehabilitation.
  • (8) "We began planning to evacuate, and took 55 people to the annexe," said Hicks.
  • (9) One patient required evacuation and open packing of the right upper quadrant and lower right hemithorax.
  • (10) The Bosnian leadership in Sarajevo warned the UN on 8 July that “genocide against the civilian population of Srebrenica may occur” but did not call for evacuation.
  • (11) Cavernous hemangiomas of the brain stem are usually discovered accidentally during evacuation of a hematoma, and successful surgical treatment of these lesions is seldom achieved.
  • (12) Total bacterial counts, nitrate-reducing bacteria and nitrite concentration were determined in fasting gastric juice before and after 4 weeks of treatment with a strong or with a mild antacid drug, a placebo preparation and the spasmolytic agent papaverine which is known to inhibit gastric evacuation.
  • (13) The postoperative CT images show successful evacuation of the hematoma, and the clinical evaluation also showed satisfactory results.
  • (14) A removable, stainless-steel tube is present around the heated area, and this particular configuration makes it possible to begin every combustion procedure from room temperature, and consequently, to achieve a complete evacuation of air from the line even for heat-labile samples.
  • (15) Allen's team has used the new technique to work out whether global warming worsened the UK floods in autumn 2000, which inundated 10,000 properties, disrupted power supplies and led to train services being cancelled, motorways closed and 11,000 people evacuated from their homes - at a total cost of £1bn.
  • (16) This series suggests that patients with cerebral amyloid angiopathy may safely undergo operative procedures, and patients presenting with intracerebral hemorrhage may show neurologic improvement following evacuation of the hematoma.
  • (17) In contrast to the broad coverage of the clinical aspects of the aeromedical evacuation, the operational and management control issues have rarely been addressed.
  • (18) Subdural hematomas were evacuated in 41 newborns during the first 4 days after birth.
  • (19) Simultaneous opening of the dura mater on both sides with slow evacuation of the contents of the hematomas is an important stage of surgical intervention in BTSH.
  • (20) The evacuation of breakfast with butter was inhibited almost to the same degree.

Flee


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
  • (2) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .
  • (3) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
  • (4) Photograph: Met police The three girls were interviewed in December by detectives about the whereabouts of their friend but were not themselves considered at risk of fleeing Britain.
  • (5) Even more haunting were stories from his wife's village, where the fleeing family found the bodies of her sister and an eight-year-old niece lying in pools of blood.
  • (6) 21 April 2009: Unicef says it faces a "human avalanche" of civilians fleeing the conflict .
  • (7) Young people with degrees are fleeing the country, leaving permanent skills gaps that will undermine any future recovery.
  • (8) Children with special needs also had to flee St Matthews parish hall during the attack on the Lower Newtownards Road.
  • (9) The archbishop of Irbil's Chaldean Catholics told the Observer fewer than 40 Christians remained in north-western Iraq after a jihadist rampage that has forced thousands to flee from Mosul and the Nineveh plains into Irbil in the Kurdish north.
  • (10) At one stage he even contemplated fleeing the country to avoid the obligations of serialisation.
  • (11) Speaking about the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the charity to which he is going, he said: "The organisation was founded at the suggestion of Albert Einstein in the 1930s for those fleeing the Nazis, so given my own family history there is an additional personal motivation for me.
  • (12) And he said yes, and I was so happy – I would have felt bad if he’d said no.” With the noose tightening around Aleppo, Masri says: “Aleppo is the final revenge against the city that was the cradle of the peaceful revolution - a genocide against everyone that does not flee all they have, and the graves of their families.
  • (13) Traditional media companies have been fleeing the US stock market to escape their low valuations.
  • (14) Many of those fleeing the violence currently live as refugees in Turkey.
  • (15) Obama said: “The people who are fleeing Syria are the most harmed by terrorism.
  • (16) In all likelihood, Congress will recess for the month of August without doing anything about the flood of children fleeing across our border ... and those children will just keep coming.
  • (17) But many other Eritreans have not been so lucky in their attempts to flee a country where President Isaias Afewerki – described as an "unhinged dictator" in the US embassy cables revealed by WikiLeaks – justifies the existence of his large army with the threat of a renewed conflict with Ethiopia, from which Eritrea gained independence in 1992.
  • (18) The Congolese army's campaign against the rebels has not progressed well, with troops fleeing when they hear of the approach of M23.
  • (19) Police said later that he fell to the ground while trying to flee with his hands cuffed behind his back and cracked his head on the ground.
  • (20) "While the state security forces in some instances intervened to prevent violence and protect fleeing Muslims, more frequently they stood aside during attacks or directly supported the assailants, committing killings and other abuses," said an HRW report released on Monday.