verb · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Received-Pronunciation:/ɨˈvɪkt/
General-American:/iˈvɪkt/
General-American:/ɪˈvɪkt/
Southern-England:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
rhymes with -ɪkt
CMU ARPABET:IH0 V IH1 K T
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
verb
Meaning 1
To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
evict a tenant
threat to evict
legally evict
The landlord threatened to evict them for nonpayment.
The protesters were forcibly evicted.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
verb
Meaning 2
To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract