Word Meanings - EVICT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust. The law of England would speedily evict them out of their possession. Sir. J. Davies. 2. To evince; to prove. Cheyne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EVICT)

• Oust
• Eject
• dispossess
• deprive
• evict
• eject
• dislodge
• remove

Related words: (words related to EVICT)

• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• EJECTMENT
  A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton. (more info) 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of
• DISPOSSESS
  To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess
• EVICT
  To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust. The law of England would speedily evict them out of their possession. Sir. J. Davies. 2. To evince; to prove. Cheyne.
• DISPOSSESSOR
  One who dispossesses. Cowley.
• DISPOSSESSION
  The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster. (more info) 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall.
• EJECTA
  Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta, or excreta, of the body.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• DISLODGE
  1. To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms. 2. To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or
• EVICTION
  1. The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster. 2. Conclusive
• EJECTION
  The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions. 3. The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment. (more info) 1. The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast
• DEPRIVE
  1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
• EJECT
  To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate. Syn. -- To expel; banish; drive out; discharge; oust; evict; dislodge; extrude; void. (more info) 1. To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out;
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• IRREJECTABLE
  That can not be rejected; irresistible. Boyle.
• REJECT
  re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among
• DEJECTURE
  That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot.
• DEJECTLY
  Dejectedly.
• REJECTANEOUS
  Not chosen orr received; rejected. "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow.
• REJECTION
  Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
• REVICTION
  Return to life. Sir T. Browne.
• REJECTABLE
  Capable of being, or that ought to be, rejected.