evacuar
Spanish, verb/ebaˈkwaɾ/
evacuar is spelled E-V-A-C-U-A-R (7 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 16,278th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Evacuar is a Spanish verb meaning “to evacuate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Desalojar o abandonar un lugar rápidamente, a menudo debido a una emergencia”.
What does evacuar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to evacuate
- 2
to defecate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Desalojar o abandonar un lugar rápidamente, a menudo debido a una emergencia. 2. Sacar a un herido, enfermo o persona en peligro hacia un hospital, centro de atención o lugar seguro. 3. Desocupar una cosa. 4. Retirarse una fuerza militar de ocupación de los territorios que controlaba.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of evacuar
- evacuo first-person present singular
- evacúo first-person present singular
- evacué first-person preterite singular
- evacuado participle past
- u-ú alternation
- evacuando gerund
- evacuada feminine participle past
- evacuados masculine participle past
- evacuadas feminine participle past
- evacuas indicative present second-person
- evacúas indicative informal present
- evacuás indicative informal present
- evacua indicative present singular
- evacúa indicative present singular
- evacuamos first-person indicative plural
- evacuáis indicative plural present
- evacuan indicative plural present
- evacúan indicative plural present
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce evacuar?
- /ebaˈkwaɾ/
- [e.β̞aˈkwaɾ]
- [eβ̞aˈkwaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to evacuar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is evacuar in Spanish?
evacuar appears 3.2 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).