EVICTION Synonyms

• the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law

• freeing from evil spirits

• the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)

• rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone

• act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

• an event in which something is displaced without rotation

• the act of uniform movement

• (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

• to move something from its natural environment

• act of removing from office or employment

• the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

• the act of forcing out someone or something

• any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body

• the act of forcing out someone or something

• squeezing out by applying pressure

• the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

• the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out

• the act of removing

• dismissal from office

• action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved

• the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law