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I don't understand. "I evacuated the building" doesn't make sense to you? It makes sense to me. If it does to you too, then why not pluralize and apply to a reg

I don't understand. "I evacuated the building" doesn't make sense to you? It makes sense to me. If it does to you too, then why not pluralize and apply to a region instead of a building?

comex 8y ago
To me it reads as a passive: thousands of people were evacuated accidentally, with the "were" being left out because it's a headline.
jstanley 8y ago
If you evacuate a building, you make everybody leave. To evacuate is to clear something out, not just to leave.
- garmaine 8y ago
  It means both (look it up): to leave, or to force someone to leave.