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Definition

the process of forcing someone to leave a place — typically from a home due to non-payment

The owner evicted the tenants because they didn't pay their rent.

evicted = forced someone to leave their home

I was served an eviction notice.

eviction = related to the process of forcing someone to leave a place

We could be evicted if we keep the puppy.

evicted = forced to move to a new home

Israel began the forcible eviction of thousands of Gaza settlers.

eviction = the process of forcing people to leave their homes

In her last letter, his mom was worried that they might be evicted from their apartment because of the smell of burning sneakers.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

evicted = forced to move out (by the owner of the building)

Often, growers evicted the strikers from their labor camps, forcing many to live together in makeshift refugee camps, sometimes on farms on the outskirts of towns.
Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising

evicted = forced to leave

You were legally evicted.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man

evicted = forced to move from your home

The landlord is threatening to evict us because of the odor.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

evict = forced to move out (of their home)

It watched its last generation of children torn away from it by court orders and eviction notices, and it had become too tired and sick to help them.
Gloria Naylor -- The Women of Brewster Place
I made out the possessions of a Dominican man who had been evicted a month or two before.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
I'm thinking that he's thinking that he won't get evicted if she owns the place.
Holly Goldberg Sloan -- Counting by 7s
Cole had earlier that evening directed her deputies to mass-evict all of them, on the pretense of unlawful trespass.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
Someone was evicted, put out on the street, chairs, tables, bed, right around the corner—the bed, John said, the super.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
And what could be worse than the evil crime Of evicting me?
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere -- Tartuffe
"Well, rather," replied Helen, and in a few trembling words she told the story of her eviction.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
All the bedroom space was taken and he hated to evict anyone.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
Only once in ten years has a bug been evicted for rowdiness.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
A family had just been evicted and there was an individual cry of despair, multiplied by millions.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
LINNIE'S FIRST ACT in Baltimore was to get them both evicted.
Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
'tis a pity you weren't alive in the times when the English were evicting us and leaving us on the side of the road.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes

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