evict
verb /ɪˈvɪkt/
/ɪˈvɪkt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they evict | /ɪˈvɪkt/ /ɪˈvɪkt/ |
| he / she / it evicts | /ɪˈvɪkts/ /ɪˈvɪkts/ |
| past simple evicted | /ɪˈvɪktɪd/ /ɪˈvɪktɪd/ |
| past participle evicted | /ɪˈvɪktɪd/ /ɪˈvɪktɪd/ |
| -ing form evicting | /ɪˈvɪktɪŋ/ /ɪˈvɪktɪŋ/ |
- evict somebody (from something) to force somebody to leave a house or land, especially when you have the legal right to do so
- A number of tenants have been evicted for not paying the rent.
- The council has tried to get them evicted.
- Police had to evict demonstrators from the building.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- forcibly
- unlawfully
- attempt to
- seek to
- try to
- …
- from
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘recover property by legal process’): from Latin evict- ‘overcome, defeated’, from the verb evincere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + vincere ‘conquer’.