Other forms: evicted, evicting, evicts
To evict is to force somebody out of a property by law. Evict the tenants.
It has to go through a court, and anybody removing a tenant without one is committing an offence. To evict somebody is the end of a process rather than an act that starts one.
1verbevictTo force somebody out of a property by law.
“It took fourteen months to evict a tenant who had paid nothing.”
evict is a removing.
Latin evincere means to conquer completely, from e plus vincere, to conquer; it is a doublet of evince.
Proto-Indo-European
*weyk-
Latin
ēvictus
Middle English
evicten
English, today
evict
Built from
From Middle English evicten, evycten, borrowed from Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). a doublet of evince.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA