evict

English

Etymology

From Latin evincere (“to vanquish completely”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪkt

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.

Translations

to expel

• Arabic: أَجْلَى‏‎ (ʾajlā)
• Bulgarian: изгонвам (bg) (izgonvam), изселвам (bg) (izselvam)
• Catalan: desdonar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 驅逐 (zh), 驱逐 (zh) (qūzhú), 赶出 (zh) (gǎnchū)

• Dutch: verjagen (nl), uitzetten (nl)
• Finnish: häätää (fi)
• French: expulser (fr), évincer (fr)
• German: vertreiben (de), verweisen (de), ausweisen (de)
• Ido: eviktar (io)

• Italian: espellere (it), sfrattare (it)
• Japanese: 追い出す (おいだす, oidasu), 立ち退かせる (たちのかせる, tachinokaseru)
• Maori: pana, pei, tute
• Polish: eksmitować
• Portuguese: despejar (pt)
• Romanian: evinge (ro), expulza (ro)
• Russian: выселя́ть (ru) (vyseljátʹ), выгоня́ть (ru) (vygonjátʹ), изгоня́ть (ru) (izgonjátʹ)
• Spanish: expulsar (es)
• Swedish: vräka (sv), avhysa (sv)

Related terms

• eviction

Anagrams

• civet