Evict Definition

ĭ-vĭkt
evicted, evicting, evicts
verb
evicted, evicting, evicts
To remove (a tenant) from leased premises by legal procedure, as for failure to pay rent.
Webster's New World
To force out; eject.
American Heritage
To remove a tenant or other occupant from real property.
Webster's New World Law

To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.

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Origin of Evict

  • Middle English evicten from Latin ēvincere ēvict- to vanquish ē-, ex- intensive pref. ex– vincere to defeat weik-3 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin evincere, "to vanquish completely."

    From Wiktionary

Evict Sentence Examples

  • The new owner must evict you if you're still in the home.

  • Find out if you have to evict the previous tenants of the property.

  • Once they have found their home, they are harder to evict than a tenant in a rent-controlled New York City apartment.

  • You need to make every day a good day at work if you want that promotion, so, clean out anything that's under your bed and evict the dust bunnies.

  • Hence the attempt of the political bishops to get Wycliffe condemned as a heretic became inextricably mixed with the attempt of the constitutional party, to which the bishops belonged, to evict the duke from his position of first councillor to the king and director of the policy of the realm.

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