evict

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɨˈvɪkt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /iˈvɪkt/, /ɪˈvɪkt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkt
• Hyphenation: af‧e‧vict

evict (third-person singular simple present evicts, present participle evicting, simple past and past participle evicted)

1. (transitive) To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
2. (computing, transitive) To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.

• eviction
• evince

• civet