evict
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English evicten, evycten, borrowed from Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). Doublet of evince.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɨˈvɪkt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /iˈvɪkt/, /ɪˈvɪkt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪkt
- Hyphenation: af‧e‧vict
Verb
editevict (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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editTranslations
editto expel
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