Oxford Learner's Thesaurus

abandon verb
abandon desert vacate evacuate
These words all mean to go away from a building or place, leaving
it empty.

PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS [-]

to abandon/desert/vacate/evacuate a building/house/home
to vacate/evacuate the office/premises
to abandon/vacate/evacuate sth immediately

abandon /BrE ; AmE / [T] (rather formal)

to leave a thing or place, especially because it is impossible or
dangerous to stay
Snow forced many drivers to abandon their vehicles. They had
to abandon their lands and property to the invading forces. He
gave the order to abandon ship (= to leave the ship because it
was sinking).
[-] The village had been hastily abandoned.
See also abandon LEAVE5, abandoned DESERTED

desert /BrE ; AmE / [T, often passive]

to go away from a place and leave it empty
The villages had been deserted. The owl seems to have
deserted its nest.
[-] People are more likely to desert their homes because
there is no longer work or food for them in the area, rather than
because of danger. Desert is most often used in the past
participle form, and is mainly used to talk about places where
people have lived at some time in the past: The
house/croft/encampment/village/settlement had been deserted.
See also deserted DESERTED

vacate /BrE ; AmE / [T] (formal)

to leave a building, room or seat, especially so that sb else can
use it

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Guests are requested to vacate their rooms by noon on the day

of departure.
[-] He sat down in the seat Steve had just vacated.

evacuate /BrE ; AmE / [T, I] (rather formal)

to move out of a place because of danger, and leave the place
empty
Employees were urged to evacuate their offices immediately.
Locals were told to evacuate.
evacuation /BrE ; AmE / noun [U]: the emergency
evacuation of the building

Oxford Learner's Thesaurus Oxford University Press, 2008.