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va⋅cate

  [vey-keyt or, especially Brit., vuh-keyt, vey-] verb, -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing.
Use vacate in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
2. to give up or relinquish (an office, position, etc.): to vacate the presidency of a firm.
3. to render inoperative; deprive of validity; void; annul: to vacate a legal judgment.
4. to cause to be empty or unoccupied; make vacant: to vacate one's mind of worries.
–verb (used without object)
5. to withdraw from occupancy; surrender possession: We will have to vacate when our lease expires.
6. to give up or leave a position, office, etc.
7. to leave; go away.
Origin:
1635–45; < L vacātus ptp. of vacāre to be empty; see -ate 1

Related forms:
va⋅cat⋅a⋅ble, adjective
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va·cate   (vā'kāt', vā-kāt')   
v.   va·cat·ed, va·cat·ing, va·cates

v.   tr.
    1. To cease to occupy or hold; give up.
    2. To empty of occupants or incumbents.
  2. Law To make void or annul; countermand: vacate a death sentence.
v.   intr.
To leave a job, office, or lodging.

[Latin vacāre, vacāt-, to be empty; see euə- in Indo-European roots.]
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Vacate

Va"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vacated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vacating.] [L. vacare, vacatum, to be empty. See Vacant.]

1. To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.

2. To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a commission or a charter; to vacate proceedings in a cause.

That after act vacating the authority of the precedent. --Eikon Basilike.

The necessity of observing the Jewish Sabbath was Vacated by the apostolical institution of the Lord's Day. --R. Nelson.

3. To defeat; to put an end to. [R.]

He vacates my revenge. --Dryden.
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vacate 
1643, "to make void, to annul," from L. vacatum, pp. of vacare "to be empty" (see vain). Meaning "to leave, give up, quit" (a place) is attested from 1791.
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Main Entry: va·cate
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: va·cat·ed; va·cat·ing
transitive verb 1 : to make void : ANNUL, SET ASIDE <vacate a lower court order>
2 a : to make vacant b : to give up the occupancy of intransitive verb : to vacate an office, post, or tenancy
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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