evict
verb
- to put out a tenant by legal process
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.
- To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
“evict a tenant”
“threat to evict”
- To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.