| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To expel, dislodge, deport, eject or extrude.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb evict.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (evict) | 1. 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.".[Wordnet]. 2. 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".[Wordnet]. 3. To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.[Websters]. 4. To evince; to prove.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: evicting, evicted, evicts, evictor, evictors, evictingly and evictedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. | Top | |
Date "EVICTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1679. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EVICTING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Dispossessing by course of law.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of evict. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
