“evicting” is a form of
evict
UK /ɨˈvɪkt/ · US /iˈvɪkt/ verb
Forms evicts evicting evicted
- verb (transitive) To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out. “evict a tenant”
- verb (computing, transitive) To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.
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Etymology
From Middle English evicten, evycten, borrowed from Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). Doublet of evince.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.
- verb To evince; to prove. [Obs.] Cheyne.
Etymology [L. evictus, p. p. of evincere to overcome completely, evict. See Evince.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “evict”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details