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evict
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English
Etymology
From Middle English evicten, evycten, borrowed from Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). Doublet of evince.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɨˈvɪkt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /iˈvɪkt/, /ɪˈvɪkt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪkt
- Hyphenation: af‧e‧vict
Verb
evict (third-person singular simple present evicts, present participle evicting, simple past and past participle evicted)
- (transitive) To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
- evict a tenant
- threat to evict
- legally evict
- The landlord threatened to evict them for nonpayment.
- The protesters were forcibly evicted.
- (computing, transitive) To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.
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to expel
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