evict
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
expel or eject without recourse to legal process
The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m.
Types & categories
- eject hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months
Types & categories
- eject hypernym
Related & opposite
- dispossession derivation
- evict verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | eviction |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | evict |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | eject |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dispossession |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | evict |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | eject |