/ɨˈvɪkt/, /iˈvɪkt/, /ɪˈvɪkt/
OriginFrom Middle English evicten, evycten, borrowed from Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). Doublet of evince.
- transitiveTo expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
“evict a tenant”
“threat to evict”
“legally evict”
- transitiveTo eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.
Formsevicts(present, singular, third-person) · evicting(participle, present) · evicted(participle, past) · evicted(past)