untenantv.
1. transitive. To dislodge from a dwelling.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel > specific people from a place, position, or possession > from a house or dwelling
unhousec1390
harryc1550
desolate1593
dishousec1595
uncastle1611
untenant1614
uncamp1670
dishome1882
rout1950
1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket iii. 104 Hee gets possession of their affections, whence all the power of man cannot vntenant him.
2. To deprive of a tenant or tenants.
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the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > make unoccupied
wanec1200
evacuate1607
untenant1640
vacant1649
unstock1655
disnesta1700
to clean out1858
distenant1876
1640 J. Shirley St. Patrick i. sig. A3v You know I can Untennant hell, dispeople the wide ayre.
1796 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations 35 All Those blind Omniscients, those Almighty Slaves Untenanting creation of its God.
1799 Monthly Rev. 28 528 It is only wonderful that the official cadastres should not wholly have untenanted the soil.
1832 R. Chambers Eminent Scotsmen I. 46 The Reformation untenanted its walls.
1846 M'Gee Gallery Irish Writers 30 Dempster..began to untenant every niche in the national temple of Ireland.
1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 67 I, whose heart of all that lived in it He hath untenanted.
3. To depart from, to quit.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away from [verb (transitive)]
leaveeOE
beleavea1250
devoidc1325
voidc1330
roomc1400
wagc1400
departa1425
refusea1425
avoid1447
ishc1450
remove1459
absent1488
part1496
refrain1534
to turn the backc1540
quita1568
apart1574
shrink1594
to fall from ——1600
to draw away1616
to go off ——a1630
shifta1642
untenant1795
evacuate1809
exit1830
stash1888
split1956
1795 S. T. Coleridge Lines at Shurton Bars iv Untenanting its beauteous clay My Sara's soul has wing'd its way.
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