Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To put out (a tenant, for example) from a property by legal process; expel.
- transitive verb To force out; eject.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dispossess by a judicial process or course of legal proceedings; expel from lands or tenements by legal process.
- To wrest or alienate by reason of the hostile assertion of an irresistible title, though without judicial process. See
eviction , 2. - Hence To expel by force; turn out or remove in any compulsory way: as, to
evict disturbers from a theater. - To evince; prove.
- To set aside; displace; annul.
- To force out; compel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Law) To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.
- transitive verb obsolete To evince; to prove.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
expel (one or more people) from their property; toforce (one or more people) tomove out .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
- verb expel or eject without recourse to legal process
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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They will have to forceably evict from the hospital.
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Article: Jerusalem mayor told to 'evict' Silwan settlers
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Photo: Jerusalem mayor told to 'evict' Silwan settlers
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