How to say "evacuate" in Japanese

• 立ち退くたちのくCommon
  godan verb, intransitive verbCovers 'evacuate' when a person leaves a place: clearing out of a building or area, or moving out of one's home. The people who go are the subject of the verb.
  大水おおみずのため人々ひとびとは立ち退たちのいた。↗

  The people were evacuated because of the flood.
• 空にするからにする
  expression, suru verbCovers 'evacuate' in the sense of emptying a place of its people or contents, leaving it vacant. Its core meaning is simply 'to empty', and it is a less common choice for 'evacuate'.

Choose 「立ち退く」 when people leave or clear out of a place, and 「空にする」 when the point is to empty a place of people or contents; the latter is the less common way to say 'evacuate'.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• 立ち退くたちのくto leave
• 空にするからにするto empty