vacated

[vey-key-tid]

adjective

1. (of a place) given up or left by whoever was occupying it.

   I had to clean the vacated rooms and prepare them for the newcomers.

2. (of an office or position) given up or relinquished.

   The final deadline for applications to the newly vacated position of Project Manager is January 13th.

3. rendered inoperative; made void or invalid; annulled.

   A new sentence is being imposed on the defendant in place of the vacated sentence.

4. cleared or emptied of whatever was in it.

   Having moved the pork medallions to a covered plate, fry the bacon in the vacated pan.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of vacate.

Other Word Forms

• unvacated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of vacated¹

First recorded in 1785–95; vacate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; vacate ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

Example Sentences

Rent increases are limited to between 3% and 4.5% when a tenant renews an existing lease or when the apartment is vacated.

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He is seeking to fill the congressional seat being vacated by New York Representative Jerrold Nadler, who announced in September that he would retire after more than three decades in office.

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For Liberty & Justice is prepared to ensure strong Republican results as Tarrant voters gear up for next year’s elections, plus a runoff election to fill a Texas Senate seat vacated by now-Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock.

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He'll take over the job vacated in October by Mike Shildt, who cited the "grind of the baseball season" when he stepped down.

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But the bay vacated by the ice shelf was eventually filled with sea-ice "fastened" to the seabed, helping to partly stabilise Hektoria.

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Related Words

• bare 
• barren 
• blank 
• deserted 
• desolate 
• devoid 
• dry 
• hollow 
• unfilled 
• uninhabited 
• unoccupied 
• vacant