evict

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To put out (a tenant, for example) by legal process; expel.
2. v. To force out; eject. See Synonyms at eject.
3. v. Law To recover (property, for example) by a superior claim or legal process.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To dispossess by a judicial process or course of legal proceedings; expel from lands or tenements by legal process.
2. To wrest or alienate by reason of the hostile assertion of an irresistible title, though without judicial process. See eviction, 2.
3. Hence To expel by force; turn out or remove in any compulsory way: as, to evict disturbers from a theater.
4. To evince; prove.
5. To set aside; displace; annul.
6. To force out; compel.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. (Law) To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.
2. v. obsolete To evince; to prove.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
2. v. expel or eject without recourse to legal process