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vacate

verb

1 vacate

Leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily:
— She vacated the position when she got pregnant.

synonyms: give up, renounce, resign.

Roget 187: be absent etc. adj.; keep away, keep out of the way; play truant, absent oneself, stay away; keep aloof, hold aloof.    withdraw, make oneself scarce, vacate; go away ... show more

Roget 624: relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch; go back on; depart from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave, quit, take leave of, ... show more

Roget 757: resign; give up, throw up; lay down, throw up the cards, wash one's hands of, abjure, renounce, forego, disclaim, retract; deny etc. 536.    ... show more

2 vacate

Leave behind empty; move out of:
— You must vacate your office by tonight.

synonyms: abandon, empty.

Roget 293: depart; go away; take one's departure, set out; set off, march off, put off, start off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off, ... show more

Roget 185: displace, misplace, displant, dislodge, disestablish; exile etc. (seclude) 893; ablegate, set aside, remove; take away, cart away; ... show more

3 vacate

Cancel officially:
— Vacate a death sentence.

synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke.

Dutch: herroepen, afschaffen, annuleren, intrekken, terugtrekken, achteruitzetten, terugdraaien


Moby thesaurus: abandon, abdicate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, abscond, annul, back out, be pensioned, be superannuated, beat a retreat, beg off, bow out, cancel, cede, clear, countermand, counterorder, cry off, demit ... show more.

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