de-occupy

A form of deoccupy — To remove an occupation from (a place).

Meanings

verbde-occupy (third-person singular simple present de-occupies, present participle de-occupying, simple past and past participle de-occupied)

present singular third person de-occupies · participle present de-occupying · participle past de-occupied · past de-occupied

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of deoccupy.

    “Our blue and yellow flag is already flying in de-occupied Izium. And it will be so in every Ukrainian city and village. We are moving in only one direction: forward towards victory,” he declared.

    2022 September 14, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, quotee, “Volodymyr Zelenskiy makes surprise visit to newly recaptured city”, in The Guardian
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APA

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Chicago

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