vacate
/veɪˈkeɪt/
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uncommon/vəˈkeɪt/
vacate verb: to move out of a dwelling or other property, either by choice or by eviction.
Verb
vacate (third-person singular simple present vacates, present participle vacating, simple past and past participle vacated)
- To move out of a dwelling or other property, either by choice or by eviction.
- I have to vacate my house by midday, as the new owner is moving in.
- You are hereby ordered to vacate the premises within 14 days.
- To leave an office or position.
- He vacated his coaching position because of the corruption scandal.
- To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.
- The judge vacated the earlier decision when new evidence was presented.
- On Thursday, the New York court of appeals vacated his conviction after concluding that a trial judge permitted jurors to see and hear too much evidence not directly related to the charges he faced. It also erased his 23-year prison sentence and ordered a retrial.2024 April 27, Maya Yang, “Disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein hospitalized”, in The Observer, →ISSN
- To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural disaster.
- If you do not immediately vacate the area, we will make you leave with tear gas!
vacate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
vacate in Hindi
- to move out
- ख़ाली करना xālī karnā
vacate in Tamil
- காலியாக்கு
vacate in Urdu
- چھوڑ دینا, خالی کرنا, ترک کرنا
vacate in Malayalam
- vacate
- ഒഴിവാക്കുക oḻivākkuka
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- vacate in Kannada
- ಬಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಡು, ತೆರಪುಮಾಡು, ಬರಿದುಮಾಡು, ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಹೊರಡು
- vacate in Arabic
- أخْلَا, تَرَكَ taraka, أبْطَلَ, نَحّى
Examples of vacate in a sentence
- Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.
- The operators vacated the room during the scan.
- Next, Francis declined to move into the gilded papal apartment vacated by his predecessor.
Forms of vacate
| third-person singular present | vacates |
|---|---|
| present participle | vacating |
| past participle | vacated |
| past | vacated |
Origin of vacate
Originally used in the legal sense "to annul", a denominal from Early Modern English vacat (“legal annulment”), a development from Middle English vacat (“absence or cancellation noted in a register”), from Latin vacat, third-person singular present active indicative of vacō (“to be idle; to be unoccupied”, literally “to be empty”). The primary modern sense "to move out" likely developed under the influence of older borrowing vacant (“unoccupied”), in combination with the Early Modern use of vacate to refer to the termination of official appointments to office, which would leave those position vacant.
Words formed from vacate
Words that rhyme with vacate
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- mate
- late
- bate
- create
- date
- relate
- vibrate
- wait
- deflate
- fate
- migrate
- rebate
- rotate
- strait
- supererogate
- translocate
- await
- eight
- freight
- skate
- alternate
- collate
- debate
- inflate
- sedate
- update
- compensate
- delate
- dilate
- fixate
- grate
- Haight
- hate
- implicate
- innate
- intercalate
- locate
- mandate
- negate
- overweight
- pinnate
- quadrate
- tate
- aerate
- calibrate
- castrate
- conflate
- crate
Questions about vacate
- What does vacate mean?
- Vacate means to move out of a dwelling or other property, either by choice or by eviction.
- What is vacate in Hindi?
- Vacate in Hindi is ख़ाली करना (xālī karnā). See Vacate meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is vacate?
- Vacate is a verb.
- How do you pronounce vacate?
- Vacate is pronounced /veɪˈkeɪt/.
- What is the past tense of vacate?
- The past tense of vacate is vacated.
Words near vacate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: vacate (page history and authors); vacate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vacate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഒഴിവാക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); vacate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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