EVICTING Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

evicting

verb

present participle of evict

as in banishing

to force (someone) to leave a place His landlord has threatened to evict him if he doesn't pay the rent soon. They were evicted from their apartment.

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Recent Examples of evicting Now that same board is evicting Aust and nearly 100 other patients from the Silverado Beach Cities Memory Care Community. — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026 The ordinance would require landlords to provide a valid reason before evicting a tenant or declining to renew their lease. — Megan De Mar, CBS News, 29 June 2026 But in 2023, Kenya’s government began evicting them again, citing a new justification. — Buket Altınçelep, The Conversation, 12 June 2026 Just months into the pandemic, Matthew Haines, like landlords across the country, learned he was barred from evicting tenants who didn’t pay their rent under a federal eviction moratoriumthat lasted almost a year — costing him and his investors over $1 million. — Michael Casey, Fortune, 3 May 2026 The homeowners were in the process of evicting Jennifer Crouse and John Crouse, who was 70 at the time, police wrote in the affidavit. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026 Several landlords who own similar apartment buildings in the city have described an upswing in nonpaying tenants since the pandemic and greater difficulties in court evicting nonpayers. — Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 19 Feb. 2026 Prince Andrew became Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and Charles also began the process of evicting him from the royal estate at Windsor. — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 19 Feb. 2026 The city tossed a curve at the Oilmen last month, evicting them from the Oil City Stadium, their home for the past 15 years. — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026

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Verb

Rhaenyra also makes the drastic decision of relieving Mysaria of her duties as master of whispers and banishing her from King’s Landing.

— Justin Kroll, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2026
But being intellectually skeptical of something is not the same as banishing it from one’s existence.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026

Definition of banishing

Verb

Pay parity rules for staff and a ban on expelling students would go by the wayside, too.

— Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2026
But sometimes, some corals on a reef bleach while others don’t, and in other cases corals under heat stress die without expelling their algae.

— Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of expelling

Verb

In the filing, the Justice Department urged the appeals court to reverse the Tennessee federal judge’s ruling dismissing criminal charges against Abrego Garcia.

— Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
The book resuscitates the childhood feeling that most of us spend our lives tamping down and dismissing, if not completely extinguishing.

— Chris Ware, The New York Review of Books, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of dismissing

Verb

The anti-Zionist project of ending Israel’s existence as a Jewish state implies killing, subjugating, or re-exiling more than half of the world’s Jewish population.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Ruthlessly exiling those players sent a clear message about the importance of squad harmony, but arguably handed the leverage in negotiations to buying clubs, driving down their prices and delaying their departures.

— James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025

Definition of exiling

Verb

Brussels recently hosted a Taliban delegation in June for migration talks, and Germany has sent four deportation flights to Afghanistan, deporting 154 Afghans between August 2024 and April 2026.

— Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2026
When individuals and institutions have spoken out against policy toward Israel, the president has wielded the power of the state to attack them, withholding funding from universities and deporting and jailing protesters.

— Michael Fuchs, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of deporting

Verb

According to Linnane, dressing like an Italian isn’t about chasing whatever fashion trend is dominating social media.

— Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026
Final Thoughts The Qidi Max 4 feels like a machine designed for people who care more about capability, material flexibility, and printing large, functional parts than chasing a perfectly polished consumer-appliance experience.

— Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026

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