evicts

verb

present tense third-person singular of evict
as in banishes
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 evicts Ashley evicts Morgan Ashley evicts Morgan. — Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 28 Sep. 2025 In the city of Cluj, located within the country’s Transylvania region, a bailiff named Orsolya (Eszter Tompa) evicts the homeless Ion (Gabriel Spahiu) from the unused cellar of a local house to make way for the construction of the Kontinental boutique hotel. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evicts
  1. banishes
  2. ejects
  3. dismisses
  4. expels
  5. deports
  6. chases
  7. removes
  8. dispossesses
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  • So, when Diana falls in love with Lalo, the King banishes him.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 29 July 2026
  • Mary appears to have a form of treatment-resistant schizophrenia, until chemotherapy, following a diagnosis of lymphoma, banishes her psychiatric symptoms.
    — Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of banishes
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  • This development forcibly ejects the mild-mannered mammal into both his parents’ den and the wild — literally — world of dating, where smelling suitors’ pee takes the place of an app profile.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 22 May 2026
  • At the same time, a salty liquid containing calcium chloride (a salt often used to de-ice roads) is pumped through the regenerator, which carries the heat away and ejects it to the surroundings on exit.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2026
Definition of ejects
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  • Warsh, conversely, advocates for the Fed to be more opaque, a strategy the author dismisses as misguided.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • One automatically ascribes fraud to results that are often predictable, even routine; the other dismisses legitimate concerns as conspiracy theories.
    — Andrew E. Busch, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
Definition of dismisses
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  • Now they are being flown to Bhutan - a country that still refuses to recognize them as citizens and expels them on arrival to India or Nepal.
    — Maansi Srivastava, NPR, 21 July 2026
  • Mary can see how worried her sister looks and sits by her while… her mother expels another human being from her body, behind the very thin curtain just a few feet away.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 July 2026
Definition of expels
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  • The policy guidance applies to agents under Enforcement and Removal Operations, the branch of ICE that detains and ultimately deports undocumented immigrants.
    — Philip Wang, Time, 14 July 2026
Definition of deports
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  • Denny Hamlin, who was born in nearby Tampa, chases the best finish of his 21-year career.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 31 July 2026
  • The Textbook Case The R&D tax credit rewards work that chases something new or improved, leans on real engineering, begins with technical uncertainty and resolves it through experimentation.
    — Anna Meadows, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of chases
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  • Langeliers’ injury, which potentially is season-ending, effectively removes him from the trade market, not that he was ever expected to move.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 27 July 2026
  • Clubs with championship aspirations can never have too many healthy arms, and Stoudt's season-ending setback removes another experienced option from the organizational picture as Philadelphia prepares for the final months of the season.
    — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of removes
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  • Bournemouth midfielder Alex Scott dispossesses Virgil van Dijk and Semenyo secures the loose ball.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
Definition of dispossesses

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