evict

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɨˈvɪkt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /iˈvɪkt/, /ɪˈvɪkt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪkt
• Hyphenation: e‧vict

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

   legally evict

   The landlord threatened to evict them for nonpayment.

   The protesters were forcibly evicted.

   • 2020 January 17, Stephen Burgen, “Balearic islands pass bill targeting boozy Brits abroad”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 March 2020:

     The legislation also seeks to outlaw “balconing”, the practice of jumping into a swimming pool from a hotel balcony that kills several people each year. In future, hotels will have to evict anyone practising balconing or encouraging others to do so.

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

Synonyms

• eject

Derived terms

• evictable
• evictee
• eviction
• evictor
• renovict
• unevicted

Related terms

• evince

Translations

to expel

• Arabic: أَجْلَى (ʔajlā), طَرَدَ (ar) (ṭarada)
• Asturian: desagospiar, desapolinar, desapoxinar
• Basque: kanporatu
• Bulgarian: изгонвам (bg) (izgonvam), изселвам (bg) (izselvam)
• Catalan: desnonar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 驅逐 / 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)
• 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)
• Māori: pana, pei, tute
• Marathi: निष्कासित करणे (niṣkāsit karṇe), बेदखल करणे (bedkhal karṇe), बाहेर टाकणे (bāher ṭākṇe), हुसकावणे (huskāvṇe)
• Polish: eksmitować
• Portuguese: despejar (pt), desalojar
• Romanian: evinge (ro), expulza (ro)
• Russian: выселя́ть (ru) impf (vyseljátʹ), вы́селить (ru) pf (výselitʹ), выгоня́ть (ru) (vygonjátʹ), изгоня́ть (ru) (izgonjátʹ)
• Spanish: desahuciar (es), desalojar (es), eviccionar, evictar
• Swedish: vräka (sv), avhysa (sv)
• Ukrainian: виселя́ти impf (vyseljáty), ви́селити pf (výselyty)
• Welsh: troi allan

Anagrams

• civet