English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin evictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). Doublet of evince.
Pronunciation[edit]
evict (third-person singular simple present evicts, present participle evicting, simple past and past participle evicted)
- (transitive) To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
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Translations[edit]
to expel
- Arabic: أَجْلَى (ʾajlā), طَرَدَ (ar) (ṭarada)
- Basque: kanporatu
- Bulgarian: изгонвам (bg) (izgonvam), изселвам (bg) (izselvam)
- Catalan: desnonar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 驅逐 (zh), 驱逐 (zh) (qūzhú), 赶出 (zh) (gǎnchū)
- Dutch: verjagen (nl), uitzetten (nl)
- Esperanto: evikcii, eldomigi
- Finnish: häätää (fi)
- French: évincer (fr)
- German: vertreiben (de), verweisen (de), ausweisen (de), exmittieren
- Greek: κάνω έξωση (káno éxosi), ξεσπιτώνω (el) (xespitóno)
- Hungarian: kilakoltat (hu)
- Ido: eviktar (io)
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- Irish: díshealbhaigh
- Italian: sfrattare (it)
- Japanese: 追い出す (ja) (おいだす, oidasu), 立ち退かせる (たちのかせる, tachinokaseru)
- Korean: 쫓아내다 (ko) (jjochanaeda), 퇴거시키다 (toegeosikida)
- Maori: pana, pei, tute
- Polish: eksmitować
- Portuguese: despejar (pt), desalojar
- Romanian: evinge (ro), expulza (ro)
- Russian: выселя́ть (ru) (vyseljátʹ), выгоня́ть (ru) (vygonjátʹ), изгоня́ть (ru) (izgonjátʹ)
- Spanish: desahuciar (es), desalojar (es)
- Swedish: vräka (sv), avhysa (sv)
- Welsh: troi allan
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