vacating 1 of 2

noun

as in vacation

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vacating

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verb

present participle of vacate
1
as in abolishing
to put an end to by formal action the contract was vacated by the court on the grounds that the signer was underage

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2
as in emptying
to remove the contents of vacated the house

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Recent Examples of vacating
Noun
Following the unfortunate vacating of the World Heavyweight Championship due to Seth Rollins suffering a shoulder injury, WWE moved quickly to find a new contender. — Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
Ensure your home is securely locked when vacating the premises. — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026 Ensure your home is securely locked when vacating the premises. — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 6 July 2026 On paper, such arrangements may appear favorable to judges, who often weigh alternatives to forcibly shuttering a hotel over concerns that suddenly vacating a property could worsen blight and invite more crime. — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 25 June 2026 Ensure your home is securely locked when vacating the premises. — Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2026 That distinction has only grown as Makhachev climbed, vacating the lightweight title now held by Ilia Topuria before claiming welterweight gold. — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026 Tenants who occupied the lower four floors are vacating, and a seismic upgrade will begin later this year. — Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vacating
  1. vacation
  2. abolishing
  3. emptying
  4. repealing
  5. evacuating
  6. canceling
  7. clearing
  8. overturning
Noun
  • The result is a new generation of patients planning trips around treatments rather than squeezing appointments into an existing vacation.
    — Meggen Harris, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
  • And some of these even make for the perfect cover-up to take you from the beach to aperitivo on your summer vacation.
    — Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 9 July 2026
Definition of vacation
Verb
  • Many of its candidates support entirely eliminating immigration enforcement, abolishing the police, sweeping wealth redistribution and expanding government ownership over significant sectors of the economy.
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2026
  • But how does that -- how does abolishing prisons or having open borders fit into that?
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 June 2026
Definition of abolishing
Verb
  • Nearby, groups descended on a shopping center on 32nd Street, emptying trash cans and tossing merchandise from the Pavilions grocery store into the parking lot.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • Placing a catch plate under the feeder and emptying it regularly solves that problem.
    — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 6 July 2026
Definition of emptying
Verb
  • In one significant policy shift, Lewis George campaigned on repealing former Metropolitan Police Department chief Pamela Smith’s executive order directing her officers to cooperate with federal immigration authorities for individuals not in police custody.
    — Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 27 June 2026
  • Council members narrowly passed the ordinance repealing the ban by a 7-5 vote, with some voting against the measure as a form of protest.
    — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026
Definition of repealing
Verb
  • But with military flyovers continuing, some attendees stopped in their tracks to take pictures of ongoing flyovers instead of evacuating.
    — Nicholas Kerr, ABC News, 4 July 2026
  • Ground robots are hauling ammunition, evacuating wounded troops, laying mines, and increasingly carrying weapons into combat as Ukraine tries to replace as many frontline tasks as possible with machines.
    — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of evacuating
Verb
  • From premium noise-canceling headphones to budget-friendly wireless earbuds, these are the standout offers still active right now.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 6 July 2026
  • The same goes for pedestrians, who increasingly are glued to phones and engrossed in noise-canceling headphones.
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of canceling
Verb
  • Still others tend the fleet already in orbit, refueling, relocating, and extending the life of satellites, and clearing the debris that crowded orbits leave behind.
    — Charlotte Kiang, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
  • In the weeks since, teams have been clearing the Cape Canaveral launch site of debris and beginning the arduous process of rebuilding.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 8 July 2026
Definition of clearing
Verb
  • More than 160 years earlier, Galileo's telescopic observations had revealed mountains, valleys, and craters on the lunar surface, overturning the ancient notion that heavenly bodies were perfect spheres.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 2 July 2026
  • The ruling is the latest in a series of Supreme Court decisions that have loosened campaign finance restrictions, overturning a 2001 precedent that upheld the spending limits.
    — Michel Martin, NPR, 1 July 2026
Definition of overturning

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