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- evict somebody (from something)
to force somebody to leave a house or land, especially when you have the legal right to do so （尤指依法从房屋或土地上）驱逐，赶出，逐出 A number of tenants have been evicted for not paying the rent. 一些房客因没付房租被赶了出来。 🔊🔊 The council has tried to get them evicted. 该委员会试图将他们驱逐出境。 Police had to evict demonstrators from the building. 警方不得不把示威者撵出大楼。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- forcibly
- unlawfully
- attempt to
- seek to
- try to
- …
- from
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘recover property by legal process’): from Latin evict- ‘overcome, defeated’, from the verb evincere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + vincere ‘conquer’.