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Mass agreement that the building is now a suggestion, not a plan.
means The organized clearing of people from a place of danger, or the removal of something (like air or contents) to leave a space empty.
from From Latin evacuare, 'to empty out' — built from ex- ('out') plus vacuus ('empty,' the same root that gives us vacuum and vacant. Originally it was used in English for literal emptying — draining fluids, clearing bowels in old medical texts — before it widened to mean clearing people from a place of danger.
- origin
- latin for emptying out completely
- biggest ever
- india partition moved over 14 million people
- deadliest flaw
- most die from panic, not the actual disaster
- golden rule
- leave earlier than feels necessary