evicted; evicting; evicts
1
a
: to recover (property) from a person by legal process
b
: to put (a tenant) out by legal process
2
: to force out : expel
Examples of evict in a Sentence
His landlord has threatened to evict him if he doesn't pay the rent soon.
They were evicted from their apartment.
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Before agreeing to leave the show, Rourke faced the possibility of being the first contestant to be evicted from the CBB UK house this season, after Siwa was given a special power to choose one housemate to automatically face the public vote.
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Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Three have been evicted for violating rules of conduct, Kozal said at the meeting.
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In 1962, after attending a voter registration meeting led by the SNCC, she was fired from her job, evicted from her home, and later brutally beaten in jail by police, an assault that left her with permanent injuries.
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Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Three have been evicted for violating rules of conduct, Kozal said at the meeting.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
In 1962, after attending a voter registration meeting led by the SNCC, she was fired from her job, evicted from her home, and later brutally beaten in jail by police, an assault that left her with permanent injuries.
—Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Critics say that Indigenous communities are too often evicted, marginalized, or abused in the name of environmental protection.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for evict
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“Evict.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evict. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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evict
verb
: to put (a person) out from property by legal action
Legal Definition
evict
transitive verb
: to put (a tenant) out of property by force, by virtue of a paramount title, or especially by legal process
Etymology
Medieval Latin evictus, past participle of evincere to recover (property) by legal process, from Latin, to vanquish, regain possession of
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