evict
verb- evict somebody (from something)
to force somebody to leave a house or land, especially when you have the legal right to do so （尤指依法从房屋或土地上）驱逐，赶出，逐出 A number of tenants have been evicted for not paying the rent. 一些房客因没付房租被赶了出来。 The council has tried to get them evicted. 委员会试图将他们驱逐出去。 Police had to evict demonstrators from the building. 警方不得不把示威者撵出大楼。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- forcibly
- unlawfully
- attempt to
- seek to
- try to
- …
- from
Word Originlate 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’.