vacateEnglishOxford English Thesaurusvacate verb 1 guests are requested to vacate their rooms by 12 noon: leave, get out of, move out of, evacuate, quit, go away from, depart from, exit from, withdraw from, pull out of; abandon, desert, relinquish; archaic forsake. ▷antonyms occupy, inhabit. 2 he will be vacating his post next year: resign from, leave, stand down from, give up, bow out of, relinquish, depart from, walk out on, retire from, abdicate; informal quit, chuck, pack in. ▷antonyms take up.vacate Oxford Dictionary of English