Meaning

2 senses

  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

    vertreiben, verweisen, ausweisen

    выселя́тьvyseljátʹ, вы́селитьvýselitʹ, выгоня́тьvygonjátʹ

    виселя́тиvyseljáty, ви́селитиvýselyty

    expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process

  2. (transitive)To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.

Examples

121 sentences

  1. Tom was evicted without notice.

    Тома виселили без попереднього попередження. — deniko

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  2. I've been evicted.

    Мене виселили. — deniko

    ruМеня выгнали. — marafon

    deIch bin vertrieben worden. — freddy1

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  3. Tom was evicted from his home.

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  4. Why were Tom and Mary evicted?

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  5. Tom will be evicted in October.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to expel:
Русский
By meaning 1
to expel:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to expel:

Origin

From Middle English evicten, evycten, borrowed from Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvin

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

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Forms

evicts, evicting, evicted, evicted
Base formevict · to evict
3rd person singularevicts
Present participleevicting
Past simpleevicted
Past participleevicted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyevict
he, she, itevicts

Past simpleLesson

all personsevicted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave evicted
he, she, ithas evicted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill evict

Synonyms

2 synonyms
eject
Close in meaning
  • expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process:force out

Word family

7 related words
Relatedevinceeviction
Derivedevictableevicteeevictorrenovictunevicted

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

4 patterns
  • evicted from his
  • been evicted from
  • got evicted
  • has been evicted

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
everythingA1everywhereA1evictionevidenceA2evidentB1
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