Evict

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To put out (a tenant, for example) by legal process; expel.
  • v. To force out; eject. See Synonyms at eject.
  • v. Law To recover (property, for example) by a superior claim or legal process.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.
  • v. To evince; to prove.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To dispossess by a judicial process or course of legal proceedings; expel from lands or tenements by legal process.
  • To wrest or alienate by reason of the hostile assertion of an irresistible title, though without judicial process. See eviction, 2.
  • Hence To expel by force; turn out or remove in any compulsory way: as, to evict disturbers from a theater.
  • To evince; prove.
  • To set aside; displace; annul.
  • To force out; compel.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
  • v. expel or eject without recourse to legal process
  • Verb Form
    evicted    evicting    evicts   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    chuck out    boot out    exclude    eject    turn-out    turf out   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    evince    prove    ejec   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    addict    afflict    clicked    conflict    constrict    contradict    convict    depict    handpicked    inflict