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Abrogate vs Vacate - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between abrogate and vacate

is that abrogate is to annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc while vacate is to move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction.

As an adjective abrogate

is abrogated; abolished.

abrogate

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Alternative forms

* abrogen (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)
  • (archaic) Abrogated; abolished.
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.4:
  • Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parables therein and mindless and pale with a longing that nothing save dark's total restitution could appease.

    Verb

    (abrogat)
  • To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
  • * (rfdate) (Robert South)
  • Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old.
  • * (Edmund Burke), 1796. Letter I. On the Overtures of Peace.
  • Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate .
  • To put an end to; to do away with.
  • (molecular biology) Block a process or function
  • Synonyms

    * (to annul by authoritative act) abolish, annul, countermand, invalidate, nullify, overrule, overturn, quash, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, set aside, supersede, suspend, undo, veto, void, waive, withdraw * (to put an end to) abjure, annihilate, cancel, dissolve, do away with, end, obliterate, obviate, recant, subvert, terminate, vitiate, wipe out

    Antonyms

    * establish * fix

    References

    vacate

    English

    Verb

    (vacat)
  • To move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction.
  • I have to vacate my house by midday, as the new owner is moving in.
    You are hereby ordered to vacate the premises within 14 days.
  • To leave an office or position.
  • ''He vacated his coaching position because of the corruption scandal.
  • To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.
  • ''The judge vacated the earlier decision when new evidence was presented.
  • To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural disaster.
  • ''If you do not immediately vacate the area, we will make you leave with tear gas!

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