- to expel (a person, especially a tenant) from land, a building, etc., by legal process, as for nonpayment of rent.
- to throw or force out, as from a place, organization, or position: He was evicted from office by a populist revolution.
- to recover (property, titles, etc.) by virtue of superior legal title.
- to expel (a tenant) from property by process of law; turn out
- to recover (property or the title to property) by judicial process or by virtue of a superior title
