evacuations
Organized mass departures
Evacuations are instances of emptying out or withdrawing.
The word most often refers to organized removals of people from dangerous areas: Evacuations began as the wildfire approached.
In medical contexts, evacuation means emptying the bowels or bladder.
The military uses evacuation for withdrawing troops or removing casualties from combat zones.
Act of taking away
- retreatSanctuary or withdrawal
- troopsMilitary personnel collectively
- civiliansNon-military population
- airliftEmergency transport by plane
Dunkirk · Saigon · Kabul · helicopter · convoy · extraction · warzone · operation
Sudden ruinous event
- crisisDecisive dangerous moment
- hurricaneViolent tropical windstorm
- wildfireUncontrolled vegetation blaze
- floodOverwhelming water overflow
tsunami · earthquake · shelter · warning · sirens · routes · mandatory · voluntary
Internal digestive organ
- stoolBackless sitting furniture
- fecalOf solid waste
- intestinalOf the gut
- constipationDifficult, infrequent waste elimination
laxative · enema · colon · digestive · excretion · elimination · rectal · gastric
Combustion with flames
- drillHole-boring device
- alarmUrgent warning signal
- exitWay to leave
- assemblyConstructing from components
procedure · workplace · school · protocol · stairwell · occupants · muster · emergency
Wartime civilian imprisonment
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- relocationPermanent change of residence
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- displacementRemoval from usual location
refugees · camps · forced · wartime · Holocaust · migration · exile · expulsion
withdrawal
Act of taking away
airlift · Dunkirk · Saigon · Kabul · helicopter · convoy · extraction · warzone · operation · strategic
disaster
Sudden ruinous event
- crisisDecisive dangerous moment
- hurricaneViolent tropical windstorm
- wildfireUncontrolled vegetation blaze
flood · tsunami · earthquake · shelter · warning · sirens · routes · mandatory · voluntary · zone
bowel
Internal digestive organ
- stoolBackless sitting furniture
- fecalOf solid waste
- intestinalOf the gut
constipation · laxative · enema · colon · digestive · excretion · elimination · rectal · gastric · hospital
fire
Combustion with flames
assembly · procedure · workplace · school · protocol · stairwell · occupants · muster · emergency · orderly
internment
Wartime civilian imprisonment
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- relocationPermanent change of residence
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
displacement · refugees · camps · forced · wartime · Holocaust · migration · exile · expulsion · ethnic
- War on TerrorOsama bin Laden, IED, Guantanamo, regime change, troop surge
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, war rationing
- interventionsrescue, surgery, therapy, aid, assistance
- floodsflood damage, flood warning, deluge, flood warnings, flash floods
- hurricaneshurricane, tropical cyclone, Andrew, Katrina, eyewall
- Nuclear DisastersChernobyl, Fukushima, Three Mile Island, meltdown, fallout
evacuationssheltering in place
Staying home safely
returns · repatriations · lockdowns · stay-at-home orders · repopulations
evacuationsoccupations
Types of paid work
settlements · colonizations · invasions · concentrations · gatherings
evacuationsoccupations
Types of paid work
repopulations · reoccupations · habitations · establishments · installations
- medical evacuationTransporting injured to care
- evacuation planEmergency departure procedure
- evacuation routePlanned emergency exit path
- emergency evacuationRapid departure from danger
- evacuation ordersOfficial commands to flee
- mandatory evacuationForced departure order