evict

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Borrowed from Latin evictus, past participle of ēvincō (to vanquish completely). Doublet of evince.

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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.

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