To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicat…
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To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.
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To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicat…
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To deny; to disown.
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To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land…
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To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
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To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.
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Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
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To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; t…
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The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.
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The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.
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To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
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To reduce to nothing; to obliterate.
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To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods.
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Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…
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The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
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To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
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To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land…
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To recall; to summon again, as persons.
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To cut off; to abrogate; to annul.
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To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; t…
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Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.
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To call or bring back; to recall.
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