evict
- (transitive) To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
- (transitive) To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.
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From Middle English evicten, evycten, borrowed from Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). Doublet of evince.
shoo away
chase out
force someone to move house
an evicted tenant
seize smuggled goods
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