evict
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 5
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Definition of evict
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To 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”
“The landlord threatened to evict them for nonpayment.”
“The protesters were forcibly evicted.”
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verb
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(transitive)To 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”
“The landlord threatened to evict them for nonpayment.”
“The protesters were forcibly evicted.”
- (transitive)To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English evicten, evycten, borrowed from Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). Doublet of evince.
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