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evict

verb

  1. to put out a tenant by legal process
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɨˈvɪkt/ / /iˈvɪkt/ / /ɪˈvɪkt/

verb

Etymology: From Middle English evicten, evycten, borrowed from Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). Doublet of evince.

  1. To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.

    evict a tenant

    threat to evict

  2. To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.