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evict

verb
/ɨˈvɪkt/UK/iˈvɪkt/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from ēvictus
  2. inherited from evicten

Definitions

  1. To expel (one or more people) from their property

    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

  2. To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.

The neighborhood

Derived

evictable, evictee, eviction, evictor, renovict, unevicted

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at evict. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at evict. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at evict

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA