verb
evict
VIHKT
verb
1
To legally force someone to leave a property they rent or occupy.
"The landlord evicted the tenants for not paying rent."
"They were evicted after months of missed payments."
2
(computing) To remove data from a cache to free up space for newer data.
"The system evicts the least recently used pages from memory."
How to Use Evict
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishTo kick someone out of a property (or, in computing, to clear old data out of a cache).
Common pairings
evict a tenant
evicted from the flat
Word Forms
evicted past tense, evicts singular
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Etymology
From Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvincere, "to vanquish completely" — a doublet of "evince."