EVICT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evict mean? 

• EVICT (verb)
  The verb EVICT has 2 senses:

1. expel or eject without recourse to legal process

2. expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process

  Familiarity information: EVICT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVICT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they evict    ... he / she / it evicts   
Past simple: evicted   
Past participle: evicted   
-ing form: evicting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expel or eject without recourse to legal process

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m.

Hypernyms (to "evict" is one way to...):

boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out (put out or expel from a place)

Verb group:

evict; force out (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

eviction (action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

evict; force out

Context example:

The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months

Hypernyms (to "evict" is one way to...):

boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out (put out or expel from a place)

Verb group:

evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

eviction (the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law)

 Context examples 

His desperate courage was evicted by a great surge of fear.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)