evict

Meanings

Verb

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."
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"
To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English evicten, evycten, borrowed from Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). Doublet of evince.

Synonyms

force out

Scrabble Score: 10

evict is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
evict is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
evict is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

evict is a valid Words With Friends word