evict
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin evictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). Doublet of evince.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪkt
Verb[edit]
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.
- (computing, transitive) To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.
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Translations[edit]
to expel
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyk- (contain)
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