evict.
To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
Meaning & usage
To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
evict a tenant
threat to evict
To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English evicten, evycten, borrowed from Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). Doublet of evince.
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