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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of exorcize.

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Examples

  • I discovered at the midnight end of a 48-hour marathon writing session that I was completely exhausted, totally exhilarated, and momentarily exorcized of all my pain.

    Toward the Within 2012

  • It has been exorcized from the energy vocabulary unless connected to the words "spills" or "foreign dependency."

    Macha Levinson: Let's Bring Oil Back Into the Energy Debate Macha Levinson 2011

  • No matter how disgusting it looks when it's carted off and I confess there are occasionally stains so brazen you'd bet your children there's no way they'll ever be exorcized, it comes back looking like a million bucks, almost brand new, and certainly attractive enough to resume having guests and putting off investing in a new floor covering through one more presidency.

    Why the Carpet Is White Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • It has been exorcized from the energy vocabulary unless connected to the words "spills" or "foreign dependency."

    Macha Levinson: Let's Bring Oil Back Into the Energy Debate Macha Levinson 2011

  • I didn't clean, so we hired a maid who said she would do it only if our house were exorcized.

    A Country of Husbands 2010

  • It confronted the “evil spirit” that had possessed that nation—a totalitarian, emperor-worshipping military cult obsessed with expansion—and violently exorcized it.

    HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010

  • As women peruse this period propaganda, we see the female body morph into a reeking vessel of shame that must be sterilized, aromatized, and exorcized in order to be considered attractive again.

    Caroline Hagood: Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation 2010

  • It confronted the “evil spirit” that had possessed that nation—a totalitarian, emperor-worshipping military cult obsessed with expansion—and violently exorcized it.

    HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010

  • As women peruse this period propaganda, we see the female body morph into a reeking vessel of shame that must be sterilized, aromatized, and exorcized in order to be considered attractive again.

    Caroline Hagood: Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation 2010

  • As women peruse this period propaganda, we see the female body morph into a reeking vessel of shame that must be sterilized, aromatized, and exorcized in order to be considered attractive again.

    Caroline Hagood: Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation 2010

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