Saturday, March 24, 2018

EXORCISE

WORD: EXORCISE

MEANING:
1.
a. To expel (an evil spirit), as by incantation, command, or prayer.
b. To eliminate or suppress (a malign influence or negative feeling, for example): ""the man most Americans now loved to like as they exorcised the defeatist spirit of the 1960s"" (Gil Troy).
2. To free from or rid of an evil spirit, malign influence, or other harmful factor: ""Kaiser Wilhelm II's puritanical wife ... sent her personal chaplain to exorcise the palace rooms Leopold had been staying in"" (Adam Hochschild).
3. escape, eliminate, purge


EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. India vs England: Barabati seeks to exorcise horror post during second ODI

PRONOUNCE:
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