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deoccupy

deoccupy verb: to remove an occupation from (a place).

Verb

deoccupy (third-person singular simple present deoccupies, present participle deoccupying, simple past and past participle deoccupied)

  1. To remove an occupation from (a place).
    • Estonia and Latvia also had more radical nationalist groups, known as Citizens Congresses, which advocated “deoccupying” the region by sending Russian migrants and their families back to Russia. Support for the Soviet regime was[…]2021 June 22, Zsuzsa Csergő, Daina S. Eglitis, Paula M. Pickering, Central and East European Politics: Changes and Challenges, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 403
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Forms of deoccupy

third-person singular presentdeoccupies
present participledeoccupying
past participledeoccupied
pastdeoccupied
alternative formde-occupy

Origin of deoccupy

From de- + occupy.

Questions about deoccupy

What does deoccupy mean?
Deoccupy means to remove an occupation from (a place).
What part of speech is deoccupy?
Deoccupy is a verb.
What is the past tense of deoccupy?
The past tense of deoccupy is deoccupied.

Words near deoccupy in the dictionary

  1. deobstruent
  2. deobstruents
  3. deoccupation
  4. deoccupied
  5. deoccupies
  6. deoccupy
  7. deoccupying
  8. deoculate
  9. deoculated
  10. deoculates
  11. deoculating

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