vacating

The word “vacating” has 3 syllables: va-cat-ing

It's pronounced as /vəˈkeɪtɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for vacating?

In the thesaurus, “vacating” has 113 synonyms and 56 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for vacating along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for vacating

  • abandonment
  • abating
  • abdication
  • abolishing
  • aborting
  • abrogating
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • avoiding
  • banning
  • bleeding
  • breaking down
  • brief
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • changeable
  • cleaning
  • clearing
  • countermanding
  • deciduous
  • departure
  • depleting
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • dismissing
  • dispossession
  • dissolving
  • doing away with
  • draining
  • dropping
  • ejection
  • ejectment
  • eliminating
  • emigrating
  • emptying
  • enjoining
  • ephemeral
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • evacuating
  • evanescent
  • exhausting
  • flash
  • fleeting
  • flitting
  • flushing
  • fly-by-night
  • flying
  • forbidding
  • fugacious
  • fugitive
  • giving up
  • going by
  • impermanent
  • insubstantial
  • invalidating
  • leaving
  • liquidating
  • migrating
  • momentary
  • moving
  • negating
  • notice
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • passing
  • prohibiting
  • provisional
  • purging
  • quashing
  • quitting
  • recalling
  • rejecting
  • removing
  • renunciation
  • repealing
  • rescinding
  • retirement
  • retracting
  • reversing
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • scouring
  • setting aside
  • short
  • short-lived
  • short-term
  • striking down
  • surrender
  • suspending
  • sweeping
  • temporal
  • tendering
  • termination
  • throwing out
  • transitory
  • transmigratory
  • unstable
  • vacancy
  • vacation
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • volatile
  • wasting
  • withdrawal
  • withdrawing
  • writing off

Antonyms for vacating

  • agreement
  • allowing
  • approving
  • authorizing
  • clearing
  • commanding
  • decreeing
  • enacting
  • endorsing
  • enduring
  • establishing
  • filling
  • formalizing
  • founding
  • habitation
  • impatience
  • incessant
  • indorsing
  • instituting
  • intolerance
  • lasting
  • laying down
  • legalizing
  • legislating
  • legitimating
  • legitimizing
  • lengthy
  • loading
  • long
  • long-lasting
  • long-lived
  • mandating
  • neverending
  • occupancy
  • occupation
  • ordering
  • ownership
  • passing
  • permanent
  • permitting
  • perpetual
  • persistent
  • possession
  • prescribing
  • proprietorship
  • ratifying
  • residency
  • resistance
  • sanctioning
  • stay
  • taking on
  • tenancy
  • tenantry
  • undying
  • validating
  • warranting

Meanings of vacating

  • verb
    1. To move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction.
    2. To leave an office or position.
    3. To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.
    4. To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural disaster.

Example Sentences

  • The guests are quietly vacating the hotel rooms before checkout.
  • The employees are diligently vacating their workspaces for the weekend.
  • The students are hurriedly vacating the library as it closes for the night.
  • The team is strategically vacating their positions to regroup.
  • The residents are slowly vacating the building during the fire drill.

On this page you'll find 169 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to vacating, such as: abandonment, abating, abdication, abolishing, aborting, abrogating, agreement.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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abandoning

abating

  • abbreviating
  • abolishing
  • aborting
  • abridging
  • abrogating
  • allaying
  • alleviating
  • analeptic
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • assuaging
  • avoiding
  • bankrupting
  • banning
  • bereaving
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • ceasing
  • cheating
  • clipping
  • closing
  • collapsing
  • compressing
  • concluding
  • condensing
  • consolatory
  • consoling
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • countermanding
  • cropping
  • crumbling
  • curing
  • curtailing
  • cutting
  • cutting back
  • cutting down
  • de-escalating
  • declinatory
  • declining
  • decreasing
  • decrescent
  • deducting
  • deflating
  • defrauding
  • denting
  • denuding
  • depleting
  • depreciating
  • depriving
  • descending
  • desisting
  • diminishing
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discontinuing
  • discounting
  • disfurnishing
  • dismissing
  • dissolving
  • divesting
  • docking
  • doing away with
  • downscaling
  • downsizing
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • dying
  • dying down
  • easing
  • ebbing
  • eliminating
  • encouraging
  • ending
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • evaporating
  • expiring
  • fading away
  • falling
  • falling away
  • finishing
  • flagging
  • forbidding
  • freeing
  • giving out
  • health-giving
  • heart-warming
  • impoverishing
  • inspiriting
  • invalidating
  • invigorating
  • knocking down
  • knocking off
  • lapsing
  • leaving off
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • liquidating
  • losing momentum
  • lowering
  • minimizing
  • mitigating
  • moderating
  • modifying
  • modulating
  • narrowing
  • negating
  • nicking
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • palling
  • paring
  • passing
  • phasing down
  • plummeting
  • plunging
  • prohibiting
  • pruning
  • qualifying
  • quashing
  • quieting
  • quitting
  • reassuring
  • recalling
  • receding
  • reducing
  • refreshing
  • rejecting
  • relaxing
  • relenting
  • relieving
  • remedying
  • remitting
  • removing
  • repealing
  • rescinding
  • restoring
  • retracting
  • retrenching
  • reversing
  • revitalizing
  • revivifying
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • sagging
  • setting aside
  • settling
  • shortchanging
  • shortening
  • shrinking
  • shriveling up
  • sinking
  • slackening
  • slashing
  • sliding
  • slipping
  • slowing
  • slumping
  • softening
  • solacing
  • soothing
  • stopping
  • striking down
  • stripping
  • subsiding
  • subtracting
  • succoring
  • suspending
  • sustaining
  • taking off
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • toppling
  • tottering
  • tranquilizing
  • trimming
  • truncating
  • tumbling
  • upholding
  • vacating
  • vanishing
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • waning
  • warming
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing down
  • wearing off
  • whittling
  • winding up
  • withdrawing
  • writing off

abdicating

abnegating

abolishing

  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abating
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abrogating
  • abrogation
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • assassinating
  • atomizing
  • avoiding
  • bane
  • banning
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • carnage
  • consuming
  • countermanding
  • crashing
  • crushing
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • deletion
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devastation
  • devouring
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discarding
  • disintegrating
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • disrupting
  • dissolution
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • doing away with
  • dooming
  • downfall
  • dropping
  • dynamiting
  • effacing
  • ejecting
  • eliminating
  • elimination
  • end
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • excising
  • expelling
  • expunging
  • exterminating
  • extermination
  • extinction
  • extinguishing
  • extinguishment
  • extirpating
  • extirpation
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • forbidding
  • fragmenting
  • havoc
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • jettisoning
  • killing
  • killing off
  • liquidating
  • liquidation
  • loss
  • massacre
  • murder
  • negating
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterating
  • obliteration
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overthrow
  • overturning
  • powdering
  • prohibiting
  • pulverizing
  • quashing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recall
  • recalling
  • rejecting
  • removing
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repudiation
  • rescinding
  • retirement
  • retracting
  • retraction
  • reversal
  • reversing
  • revocation
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rubbing out
  • ruin
  • ruination
  • ruining
  • sacking
  • setting aside
  • shattering
  • slaughter
  • slaying
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • striking down
  • subjugation
  • subversion
  • subverting
  • suspending
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undoing
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • withdrawing
  • wrack
  • wreck
  • wreckage
  • wrecking
  • writing off
  • zapping

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