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Definition: Evict |
EvictVerb1. Expel from one's property; force to move out; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "evict" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references) |
Note: Evict \E*vict"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Evicted; present participle verb or noun Evicting.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: EvictSynonym: force out (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ejection | Turn out of doors, turn out of house and home; evict, oust; unhouse, unkennel; dislodge; unpeople, dispeople; depopulate; relegate, deport. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Evict |
| English words defined with "evict": Deturbate ♦ Evicted, Evicting ♦ renter ♦ tenant. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Attempt to evict students / Press Association, Inc.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some bats live in buildings, and there may be no reason to evict them if there is little chance for contact with people. (references) | |
Business | Police continued to evict, detain arbitrarily, and destroy the homes of peasant leaders in the state of Veracruz. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Iraq | According to numerous deportees in the north, the Government generally uses a systematic procedure to evict and deport non-Arab citizens. (references) |
Swaziland | In addition in 2000 there was a report that a chief threatened to evict families from ancestral land if they included members of a banned political party; however, no action was taken. (references) | |
Economic History | Egypt | Residential mortgages are basically unenforceable because the legal system provides no right to evict for non-payment. (references) |
Human Rights | Croatia | An ongoing problem was the existence of "priority category" citizens, i.e., active or former members of the military and widows and orphans, whom courts and housing commissions were unwilling to evict. (references) |
Venezuela | In October two landowners and several squatters were badly injured, and a teenage boy was left in a coma as police and the National Guard tried to evict invaders from a private property in Machiques, Zulia. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | In February the Chamber ordered the Federation to immediately enable two applicants to regain possession of their apartments in Mostar after local officials failed to evict illegal occupants within the time limits prescribed by law. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Indonesia | However, from November 23 to 25, 2000, approximately 70 security personnel sought to evict the Moronene from the park. (references) |
Minorities | Greece | Local authorities harassed and threatened to evict Roma from their camps or other dwellings, and the NGO Greek Helsinki Monitor reported that many communities of Romani tent-dwellers were evicted during the year. (references) |
Political Economy | Hungary | The authorities have attempted to evict Roma from some cities. (references) |
Worker Rights | India | Using the PITA's provisions against soliciting or engaging in sexual acts, police regularly may arrest sex workers, extort money from them, evict them, and take their children from them. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Evict" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 85.00% of the time. "Evict" is used about 80 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 85% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.25% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 80 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "evict": evict a tenant. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
evict tenant | 16 |
evict | 10 |
evict someone | 4 |
evict roommate | 3 |
evict notice | 3 |
evict renter | 2 |
evict guest unwanted | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "evict"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nxjerr jashtë (eject, expel, gum up, put out), dëboj (banish, cast out, deport, excommunicate, exile, expel, hoot, laugh off, proscribe, rase, raze, rout, send off, send packing, throw out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نزع ملكية (denaturalize), طرد (banish, banishment, bounce, bouncer, cashier, cast out, chuck, deport, deportation, disgrace, dislodge, dismiss, dismissal, dispossess, dispossession, disqualification, drive out, drum, eject, ejection, eliminate, elimination, evaporate, eviction, expel, expulsion, fence, fight down, get off, hunt, in order of the boot, oust, ouster, pitch, poke, put out, removal, remove, repel, rout, sack, scat, send, send packing, sending away, shake, shrift, sling out, spurn, throw out, toss, toss out, turf, turf out, turn away, turn off, turn out), إسترد (call, get back, give back, recall, recapture, reconquer, recoup, recover, recuperate, regain, resume, retake, retrieve, return, take back, withdraw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отнемам (denude, deprive, detract, divest, overreach, revoke, take, take away), изгонвам (cast off, chase, clear off, dispossess, drive away, drive out, eject, feeze, hunt out, lay, oust, put out, run off, see off, send away, send out, send packing, shoot out, spurn, throw out, thrust out, turf out, turn away, turn out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 赶出 (Evicted, Evicting, Eviction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vypudit (dislodge, oust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فیصله دادن , مستردداشتن , خلع یدکردن , خارج کردن (Emit), بیرون کردن (Cashier, Dispossess, Fire, Force, Swap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | häätää (turn out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | expulser, récupérer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zur räumung zwingen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάνω έξωση (turn out of). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל'רש (drive out, eject, expel, kick out, oust, send packing, throw out, turn out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megszerez (achieve, acquire, attain, get, obtain, procure, take out, to attain, to clinch, to corral, to evict, to purchase, to take out), kilakoltat (dislodge, to eject, to evict, to expel, to unhouse), kikerget (drive out, oust, to expel, to turn out, turn out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengenyahkan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | espellere (discharge, eject, excrete, expel, oust, to disroot, to root out, to unroot), sfrattare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 立ち退かせる (to eject, to evict). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たちのかせる (to eject, to evict). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | scughey (budge, dislodge, dislodgement, displace, displacement, eviction, move, moving, quit, removal, remove, scoot, shift, shift about, shifting), ceau magh (dismiss, eject, jettison, stream, throw out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | kaste ut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | evictay em volta de (about, around), desalojar (dislodge). (various references) evacua (clear, eject, evacuate, loosen, oust, reject, remove), alunga dintr-o proprietate. (various references) выселять (dispossess, move out, oust). (various references) isterati (dislodge, drive out, exorcise, exorcize, expel, oust, push out, ride, run out, scavenge, throw out), iseliti (dislodge, move out). (various references) desahuciar (dispossess, give up, give up hope for, oust, put out). (various references) vräka (dispossess, eject, heave, pelt, throw, toss), avhysa. (various references) ขับไล่ (ออกจากสถานที่ใ"สถานที่หนึ่ง). (various references) yasal olarak el koymak, tahliye ettirmek (spring), mahkeme kararıyla çıkartmak. (various references) відсудити, виселяти (banish, dispossess, oust), виганяти (banish, boo, boot out, chase, dislodge, dispossess, eject, exclude, exile, expel, oust, proscribe, put out of, send off, throw out, thrust out, turn out), довести. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "evict": evicted, evictee, evictees, evicting, eviction, evictions, evictor, evictors, evicts. (additional references) | |
Words containing "evict": revictual, revictualed, revictualing, revictualled, revictualling, revictuals. (additional references) | |
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"Evict" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avic, avict, devicto, ecict, Edvac, egic, eic, Eicg, elict, envist, epict, erict, evac, evace, evacu, evect, evest, evi, evic, evico, evicte, evit, evoc, evoct, exict, ivic, ivict, mvic, Nevitt, ovict, uvict, vict, vitc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "evict" (pronounced ivi"kt) |
| 3 | -i" k t | addict, afflict, clicked, constrict, contradict, depict, handpicked, inflict, kicked, Licht, licked, nicked, picked, predict, pricked, restrict, slicked, strict, ticked, tricked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: civet. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-t-v" | |
-1 letter: cite, etic, vice. | |
-2 letters: ice, tic, tie, vet, vie. | |
-3 letters: et, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-t-v" | |
+1 letter: active, civets, evicts. | |
+2 letters: actives, captive, cavetti, cheviot, costive, evicted, evictee, evictor, fictive, uveitic, venatic, verdict, vicomte. | |
+3 letters: activate, actively, activize, captives, cavatine, cavitate, cavitied, cavities, cheviots, cleveite, coactive, coinvent, conative, contrive, coveting, creative, curative, curviest, eductive, ejective, elective, enactive, erective, evection, evictees, evicting, eviction, evictors, inactive, invected, invocate, locative, navicert, orective, outvoice, reactive, tractive, vaticide, velocity, veracity, verdicts, veristic, vertical, vertices, verticil, vesicant, vesicate, vicarate, vicomtes, victress, vivisect, vocative, vortices. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 76 69 63 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110110 01101001 01100011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E v i c t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0076 0069 0063 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3988756986 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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