had been evicting

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of evict.
  evict

  verb (used with object)

  to expel (a person, especially a tenant) from land, a building, etc., by legal process, as for nonpayment of rent.

Related Words

• chase
• dislodge
• dismiss
• dispossess
• eject
• expel
• force out
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• remove