EVICTING Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

evicting

verb

present participle of evict

as in banishing

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 evicting Just months into the pandemic, Matthew Haines, like landlords across the country, learned he was barred from evicting tenants who didn’t pay their rent under a federal eviction moratoriumthat lasted almost a year — costing him and his investors over $1 million. —

Michael Casey, Fortune, 3 May 2026 Prasad, at the time of the filing, claimed that the property owner had signed a lease that prevents them from evicting the campus. —

Cbs Chicago Team, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026 The homeowners were in the process of evicting Jennifer Crouse and John Crouse, who was 70 at the time, police wrote in the affidavit. —

Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026 Several landlords who own similar apartment buildings in the city have described an upswing in nonpaying tenants since the pandemic and greater difficulties in court evicting nonpayers. —

Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 19 Feb. 2026 Prince Andrew became Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and Charles also began the process of evicting him from the royal estate at Windsor. —

Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 19 Feb. 2026 The city tossed a curve at the Oilmen last month, evicting them from the Oil City Stadium, their home for the past 15 years. —

Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026 But the renovations happening at Serra Grove could have been completed without evicting tenants, Snow said, noting similar cases across the county. —

Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026 The company is notorious in Milwaukee for evicting its tenants with regularity and being sued by the state Department of Justice over shoddy living conditions in 2021. —

David Clarey, jsonline.com, 26 Jan. 2026

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Latz has picked up the past four saves for Texas, banishing Jakob Junis to a supporting role.

— Andy Behrens, New York Times, 11 May 2026
Angels could be seen all around — some on the walls depicting Moses' life and death, and another above, on Michelangelo’s fresco, banishing Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026