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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. expel or eject without recourse to legal process;
- Example: "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m."

2. expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process;
- Example: "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months"
[syn: evict, force out]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Evict \E*vict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Evicting.] [L. evictus, p. p. of evincere to overcome completely, evict. See Evince.] 1. (Law) To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust. [1913 Webster] The law of England would speedily evict them out of their possession. --Sir. J. Davies. [1913 Webster] 2. To evince; to prove. [Obs.] --Cheyne. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

evict v 1: expel or eject without recourse to legal process; "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m." 2: expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months" [syn: evict, force out]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "evict": boot out, chase, chuck, cut off, disendow, disherison, disinherit, dislodge, dismiss, disown, dispossess, disseise, eject, expel, expropriate, extrude, force out, foreclose, kick out, oust, out, put out, remove, shut out, throw out, toss out, turn out, unhouse, unkennel