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EVICT
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they evict ... he / she / it evicts
Past simple: evicted
Past participle: evicted
-ing form: evicting
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
evict; force out
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "evict" is one way to...):
boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out (put out or expel from a place)
Verb group:
evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Derivation:
eviction (the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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.
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "evict" is one way to...):
boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out (put out or expel from a place)
Verb group:
evict; force out (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Derivation:
eviction (action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved)
