Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Vacate

Vacate , transitive verb

[Latin vacare, vacatum, to be empty. See Vacant.]

1.
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.
2.
To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a commission or a charter; to vacate proceedings in a cause.
That after act vacating the authority of the precedent. — Eikon Basilike
The necessity of observing the Jewish Sabbath was vacated by the apostolical institution of the Lord's Day. — R. Nelson
3.
To defeat; to put an end to. [Rare]
He vacates my revenge. — Dryden