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evicting

evicting is the present participle and gerund of evict.

Meaning of evict

Verb

evict (third-person singular simple present evicts, present participle evicting, simple past and past participle evicted)

  1. (transitive) To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
    • evict a tenant
  2. (transitive) To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.

Questions about evicting

What is evicting the present participle and gerund of?
Evicting is the present participle and gerund of evict.

Words near evicting in the dictionary

  1. evict
  2. evictable
  3. evicted
  4. evictee
  5. evictees
  6. evicting
  7. eviction
  8. evictionism
  9. evictionist
  10. evictionists
  11. evictions

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