evict
e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + vincere ‘conquer’
/icons/point.icon EJECT, EXPEL, OUST, EVICT mean to drive or force out.
EJECT carries an especially strong implication of throwing or thrusting out from within as a physical action.
e.g. ejected an obnoxious patron from the bar
EXPEL stresses a thrusting out or driving away especially permanently which need not be physical.
e.g. a student expelled from college
OUST implies removal or dispossession by power of the law or by force or compulsion.
e.g. police ousted the squatters
EVICT chiefly applies to turning out of house and home.
e.g. evicted for nonpayment of rent
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verb with object
expel (someone) from a property, especially with the support of the law:
【土地･建物などから】(法的手段で)〈住人〉を立ち退かせる, 追い立てる «from»
e.g. he had court orders to evict the trespassers from three camps.
DERIVATIVES
evictor | əˈviktər | noun
ORIGIN
late Middle English (in the sense ‘recover property by legal process’): from Latin evict- ‘overcome, defeated’, from the verb evincere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + vincere ‘conquer’.