疎開 – Vocabulary details

疎そ開かい

Noun

Verb (する, transitive)

1. evacuation (to the country)

2. spreading out (troops); deployment; dispersal

sparse

open

そ

かい

sparse; distant (of a relationship); estranged; alienated

open; beginning

evacuee

forced evacuation

evacuation of school children (from major cities to more rural areas, esp. during late World War II)

evacuating to the homes of one's relatives in the countryside in wartime

community evacuation

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