vacate
verb
[ veɪˈkeɪt ]
• leave (a place that one previously occupied).
• "rooms must be vacated by noon on the last day of your holiday"
Similar:
leave,
get out of,
move out of,
evacuate,
quit,
go away from,
depart from,
exit from,
withdraw from,
pull out of,
abandon,
desert,
relinquish,
forsake,
• cancel or annul (a judgement, contract, or charge).
• "the Justices vacated a ruling by the federal appeals court"
Origin:
mid 17th century (as a legal term, also in the sense ‘make ineffective’): from Latin vacat- ‘left empty’, from the verb vacare .
