0 past simple and past participle of vacate --
1 to leave a room, building, chair, etc. so that it is available for other people: --
With the subject being an obligatory syntactic function in most clause types, this transformation requires the insertion of a 'dummy element' to fill the vacated subject position.
Because the area they inhabited in the southern reserve was inadequate to sustain their pastoral livelihoods, they demanded that areas they vacated under the 1911 treaty be returned to them.
This oversimplifies relationships because it ignores the ways in which commitment to and from siblings or parents and children can possibly expand to occupy the space vacated by conjugal commitment.
But the of -variant of verbs of removal means that a container or a surface is completely vacated, and is therefore not compatible with the notion of degree.
Until the early medieval period, neither the position of the household head nor that of the ie wife was vacated before the deaths of the holders.
So they vacated their own houses!
The vacated puparium is often described as a 'pupal case'.
Among active nests, 59% contained eggs, and 41% either contained chicks or evidence that they had been recently vacated.
