Vacked vs Lacked - What's the difference?
vacked | lacked |
(vac)
(informal) A vacation.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 324:
(informal) A vacuum cleaner.
To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
* 2010 , Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star (page 332)
(lack)
(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
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A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
* Shakespeare
* 1994 , (Green Day),
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= To be without, to need, to require.
To be short (of'' or ''for something).
* Shakespeare
To be in want.
* Bible, Psalms xxxiv. 10
As verbs the difference between vacked and lacked
is that vacked is (vac) while lacked is (lack).vacked
English
Verb
(head)vac
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was to be their last term at Oxford and Hilary had incited them both to journey with him to Provence for the long vac .
Derived terms
* (vacuum cleaner) minivacVerb
(vack)- I went on to how Harold used to work in security on the building; he used to see Andy in the underground car-park vacking the sick out of the Merc.
Anagrams
* (l) ----lacked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*lack
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let his lack of years be no impediment.
- I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.''
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Antonyms
* glut * surplusVerb
(en verb)- My life lacks excitement.
- He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
- What hour now? I think it lacks of twelve.
- The young lions do lack , and suffer hunger.