vacuated

Definition of vacuatednext
past tense of vacuate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for vacuated
Verb
  • The Santa Monica Pier was temporarily evacuated on Saturday afternoon as police investigated what was determined to be a non-credible bomb threat.
    Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Things accelerated following a volcanic eruption in 1961, after which the entire community was evacuated to the United Kingdom.
    NPR, NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the man captaining the boat that gets her into the Amazon is possessed by thoughts of a lost love, a story even a head-in-her-hands Tereza is exhausted by.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2026
  • And what if the low-hanging fruit is exhausted and settlements become harder to come by?
    Adam Summers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • More than 80 towns and villages have been emptied, more than 15% of the country’s population has been displaced, and more than 1,300 people have been killed by Israeli strikes, with thousands more wounded, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
    Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
  • And because these barrels are rarely emptied from year to year, each vintage is an evolution from the last.
    Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The order vacated guilty verdicts from the 2018 trial of Renardo Williams, who was convicted of killing Bethgy Catora and shooting and injuring Mayklens Francois during a drug deal gone wrong.
    Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
  • While the misdemeanor child molestation count was vacated because of the issue involving the girl’s testimony, the appellate panel said there was sufficient evidence to support the conviction and that Lopez could be retried on that count.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • These young men were sucked into the manosphere.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Chaplin’s famous scene in Modern Times was a bit grislier, ending with him getting sucked into the conveyor belt itself.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
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“Vacuated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vacuated. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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