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Exorcise

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To expel (an evil spirit) by or as if by incantation, command, or prayer.

v. To free from evil spirits or malign influences.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To drive out an evil spirit from a person, place or thing, especially by an incantation or prayer

v. To rid a person, place or thing of an evil spirit

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one.

v. To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To expel by conjurations and religious or magical ceremonies; drive out by religious or magical agencies: as, to exorcise evil spirits.

To purify from unclean spirits by adjurations and religious or magical ceremonies; deliver from the influence of malignant spirits or demons: as, to exorcise a house.

To call up or forth, as a spirit; conjure up.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. expel through adjuration or prayers

Word Usage

"The reverend's tactics may be unusual — he's been known to leap on shop counters in order to "exorcise" cash registers — but his message of modest spending is increasingly mainstream."

Verb Form

exorcised exorcises exorcising

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

chuck out boot out exclude eject turn-out

Form

exorcised exorcising exorcism exorcist

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

lay down exsufflate