evict

Betekenis (Engels)

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

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Etimologie (Engels)

In summary

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

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