1. 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";
   - force out
    
2. 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"

Derived forms: evicts, evicting, evicted

Type of: boot out [informal], chuck out, eject, exclude, turf out [Brit, informal], turn out

Encyclopedia: Evict