| 单词 | vacate |
| 释义 | vacate (once / 393 pages) v If someone asks you to vacate the room, you'd better pack up your things and go. When you vacate something, you leave it behind, usually empty. When you stay at a hotel, you're required to vacate the room at check-out time. The same goes for the last day of your lease on your apartment or after closing on the sale of your house. In all of these cases, you've got to get going and take all of your stuff with you. The verb vacate can also be used in conjunction with leaving a job, often an appointed office. WORD FAMILYvacate: vacated, vacates, vacating, vacation+/vacation: vacationed, vacationer, vacationing, vacationist, vacations/vacationer: vacationers/vacationing: vacationings/vacationist: vacationists USAGE EXAMPLESLet It Shine is filling the BBC One Saturday night slot that was vacated by The Voice UK's move to ITV. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Obama also ordered Russia to vacate two U.S. facilities as part of the tough sanctions on Russia. Reuters(Jan 01, 2017) Another new law allows people to petition to annul records of criminal convictions, if the conviction was later vacated by a court. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1v leave behind empty; move out of You must vacate your office by tonight Syn|Hyper abandon, empty go away, go forth, leave go away from a place 2v leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily She vacated the position when she got pregnant Syn|Hypo|Hyper give up, renounce, resign abdicate, renounce give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations leave office, quit, resign, step down give up or retire from a position 3v cancel officially vacate a death sentence Syn|Hypo|Hyper annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke go back on, renege, renege on, renegue on fail to fulfill a promise or obligation cancel, strike down declare null and void; make ineffective |
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