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evict

Syllables: af·e·vict/ɨˈvɪkt/US/iˈvɪkt/

evict verb: to expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.

Verb

evict (third-person singular simple present evicts, present participle evicting, simple past and past participle evicted)

  1. (transitive) To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
    • evict a tenant
    • threat to evict
  2. (transitive) To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.

evict meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

evict in Marathi

to expel
निष्कासित करणे niṣkāsit karṇe, बेदखल करणे bedkhal karṇe, बाहेर टाकणे bāher ṭākṇe, हुसकावणे huskāvṇe

evict in Urdu

چھوڑنا, گھر سے نکالنا

evict in Malayalam

ഒഴിപ്പിക്കുക, വെളിയിലേക്കുതള്ളുക, കുടിയിറക്കുക

evict in Kannada

ಹೊರದೂಡು, ಹೊರಹಾಕು, ಹೊರಗಟ್ಟು, ಓಡಿಸು, ಹೊರದಬ್ಬು, ನೂಕು
More languagesFewer languages
evict in Arabic
أَجْلَى ʔajlā, طَرَدَ ṭarada

Examples of evict in a sentence

  • The landlord threatened to evict them for nonpayment.
  • The protesters were forcibly evicted.
  • In future, hotels will have to evict anyone practising balconing or encouraging others to do so.2020 January 17, Stephen Burgen, “Balearic islands pass bill targeting boozy Brits abroad”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on...

All 19 example sentences with evict

Synonyms of evict

Forms of evict

third-person singular presentevicts
present participleevicting
past participleevicted
pastevicted

Past tense of evict: evicted

Origin of evict

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

Words formed from evict

Words that rhyme with evict

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Questions about evict

What does evict mean?
Evict means to expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
What is evict in Marathi?
Evict in Marathi is निष्कासित करणे (niṣkāsit karṇe), बेदखल करणे (bedkhal karṇe), बाहेर टाकणे (bāher ṭākṇe). See Evict meaning in Marathi.
How do you use evict in a sentence?
The landlord threatened to evict them for nonpayment.
What part of speech is evict?
Evict is a verb.
How do you pronounce evict?
Evict is pronounced /ɨˈvɪkt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of evict?
The past tense of evict is evicted.

Words near evict in the dictionary

  1. Evia
  2. evibrate
  3. evibrated
  4. evibrates
  5. evibrating
  6. evict
  7. evictable
  8. evicted
  9. evictee
  10. evictees
  11. evicting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: evict (page history and authors); evict (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); evict (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); evict (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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