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self-evacuate

self-evacuate verb: to evacuate a place by one's own decision, without assistance, or unaided.

Verb

self-evacuate (third-person singular simple present self-evacuates, present participle self-evacuating, simple past and past participle self-evacuated)

  1. To evacuate a place by one's own decision, without assistance, or unaided.
    • The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has issued a Safety Digest into an incident where passengers self-evacuated from a train at North Pole Junction on July 15.2019 December 4, “RAIB issues digest after passengers self-evacuate”, in RAIL, page 22

Forms of self-evacuate

third-person singular presentself-evacuates
present participleself-evacuating
past participleself-evacuated
pastself-evacuated

Origin of self-evacuate

From self- + evacuate.

Questions about self-evacuate

What does self-evacuate mean?
Self-evacuate means to evacuate a place by one's own decision, without assistance, or unaided.
What part of speech is self-evacuate?
Self-evacuate is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-evacuate?
The past tense of self-evacuate is self-evacuated.

Words near self-evacuate in the dictionary

  1. self-esteeming
  2. self-esteems
  3. self-esterification
  4. self-esterifications
  5. self-etch
  6. self-evacuate
  7. self-evacuated
  8. self-evacuates
  9. self-evacuating
  10. self-evacuation
  11. self-evacuations

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