evict

Verb

Verb Forms: evicted, evicting, evicts

To expel someone from a property by legal process.
expel or eject without recourse to legal process
- "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m."
expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
- "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months"
To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.

Examples

He hoped to EVICT his opponent’s low-scoring words from the bonus squares.

Origin / Etymology

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

Synonyms

force out

Scrabble Score: 10

evict: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
evict: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
evict: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

evict: valid Words With Friends Word