What part of speech is evacuating?

Evacuating can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. evacuating is a verb, gerund of evacuate (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does evacuating mean?

Definitions

Verb

evacuate - excrete or discharge from the body
evacuate - move people from their homes or country
evacuate - empty completely; "evacuate the bottle"
evacuate - move out of an unsafe location into safety; "After the earthquake, residents were evacuated"
evacuate - create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)

Examples of evacuating

#   Sentence  
1. verb We're not evacuating.
2. verb Attention, people! We're evacuating the building.
3. verb After evacuating their homes, she and her family sought refuge in a shelter for two days.
4. verb We're evacuating the area.
5. verb Evacuate the bottle.
6. verb Amid worsening conditions, officials plan to evacuate a New Orleans stadium where up to 20,000 people took shelter.
7. verb What I saw was dozens of school buses submerged that could have been used to evacuate people who had no transportation.
8. verb The threatening floods made it necessary to evacuate the town.
9. verb We have less than five minutes to evacuate the whole building.
10. verb There's a fire in the building. We have to evacuate immediately.
11. verb There's danger that the levee will break. We have to evacuate immediately.
12. verb We have 24 hours to evacuate the city.
13. verb The alarm rang and everyone had to evacuate.
14. verb We must evacuate.
15. verb Prepare to evacuate.
Sentence  
verb
We're not evacuating.
Attention, people! We're evacuating the building.
After evacuating their homes, she and her family sought refuge in a shelter for two days.
We're evacuating the area.
Evacuate the bottle.
Amid worsening conditions, officials plan to evacuate a New Orleans stadium where up to 20,000 people took shelter.
What I saw was dozens of school buses submerged that could have been used to evacuate people who had no transportation.
The threatening floods made it necessary to evacuate the town.
We have less than five minutes to evacuate the whole building.
There's a fire in the building. We have to evacuate immediately.
There's danger that the levee will break. We have to evacuate immediately.
We have 24 hours to evacuate the city.
The alarm rang and everyone had to evacuate.
We must evacuate.
Prepare to evacuate.

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