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What is another word for exorcises?

Pronunciation: [ˈɛksəsˌa͡ɪzɪz] (IPA)

Exorcises is a word commonly used to describe the act of driving out evil, spiritual entities or unwanted thoughts or feelings. However, there are several synonyms of exorcises that can be used in different contexts. One such word is banishes, which is the act of getting rid of something unpleasant or harmful. Expels, removes, and purges are other good synonyms for exorcises. All these words refer to removing something unwanted from a person or situation. In short, exorcises can be substituted with any of these synonyms depending on the context of the sentence.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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3. S. Philip exorcises a Girl possessed of a Demon.
"Fra Bartolommeo"
Leader Scott (Re-Edited By Horace Shipp And Flora Kendrick)
As I have elsewhere confessed, I have myself been responsible for ridiculous incantations with burning sulphur, experimentally proved to be quite useless, because poor people are convinced, by the mystical air of the burning and the horrible smell, that it exorcises the demons of smallpox and scarlet fever and makes it safe for them to return to their houses.
"The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors"
George Bernard Shaw
The gifted person subsists upon some other employment, and exorcises gratis.
"Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official"
William Sleeman

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  • Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
    Eartha Kitt

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