EVICTED Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

evicted

verb

past tense of evict

as in banished

to force (someone) to leave a place His landlord has threatened to evict him if he doesn't pay the rent soon. They were evicted from their apartment.

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Recent Examples of evicted The pair have just been evicted from their apartment, coming home from church to find all of their worldly possessions on the stairs. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026 Teeny, along with several other animals, was surrendered to the Arizona Humane Society after their own was sadly evicted from their residence. — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2026 Right now, traditional Democrats are being evicted one at a time. — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 10 Sep. 2026 Rakchongcharoen was the spokesperson for a community of Karen folks living in the mountains of west Thailand when they were forcibly evicted by Thai authorities. — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026 The main drama involves a rural teen-age tee girl who recognizes the resort’s president as the potentate who evicted her family from their land. — Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2026 Big Brother 28 cast Here's the full Big Brother season 28 cast, including who's left in the house and who has been evicted. — Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 27 Aug. 2026 That’s partly why the British royal family has recently tried to distance themselves from the disgraced ex-prince, to the point that he was stripped of his titles and evicted from his home at Royal Lodge. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 24 Aug. 2026 Now that they are being evicted, however, Ferguson has elected not to join her ex-husband at Marsh Farm. — Emma Banks, InStyle, 21 Aug. 2026

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Their situation is nothing like that of Prince Andrew, for example, who was stripped of all his titles and has now been banished to Sandringham.

— Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 15 Sep. 2026
Characters banished or murdered early in one version emerge victorious in another.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of banished

Verb

The school board voted unanimously to allow the students to withdraw rather than be expelled from the school.

— Darius Johnson, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
Washington’s bets include $414 million in financing for a uranium project in Niger — a country that expelled all US forces two years ago — and hundreds of millions for digital infrastructure providers.

— Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of expelled

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In California, a federal judge this month dismissed the administration’s challenge to school sports policies allowing transgender athletes to compete on teams matching their gender identity.

— Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
Netanyahu dismissed the allegations, and is suing Levi and several other Israelis who have made similar charges.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

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Located in Jerusalem, al-Wasiti became, for years, the place to visit, empowering Palestinian artists exiled all over the world to return to a fountain of unity and belonging.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
This thriller centers on disgraced or damaged agents of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service who have been exiled to a remote Greek island.

— Monitor reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of exiled

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Separately, the administration deported an Afghan man to the Central African Republic despite a prior judicial protection order over fears his family could face Taliban retaliation.

— Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 18 Sep. 2026
The group includes at least 113 former beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status, who were deported mere days after being detained in the United States, according to Haitian government records.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of deported

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The man, identified as 22-year-old Rohit Rohit, chased Thakur down outside a Panera and shot her multiple times, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Operators that mastered complexity while others chased appearances.

— Nia Bowers, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026

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