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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
exorcise .
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Examples
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But the warrior "exorcises" them and he passes through the waves in safety.
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Not a movie, but I also watched an episode of this BBC show Apparitions - about a Catholic priest who exorcises demons in modern London - and quite enjoyed it, particularly the emotional honesty of the characters portrayed.
comprehensive review of way too many movies intertribal 2010
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Google “Vatican exorcises Harry Potter” avid reader
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Mr. Tully plays the prodigal, hirsute and nearly mute football hero Cornelius Rawlings , who returns to the family farm and his misfit brothers: Amos (Onar Tukel), a recluse who exorcises demons in grotesque illustrations, and Ezra ( Robert Longstreet ), a religious nut and crossdresser who flutters about like an obsessive mother hen.
Bombshells and Boxers Steve Dollar 2011
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It isn't really clear whether writing about something exorcises it, or exacerbates it, but the writer enthralled by a personal event, or traumatized by it, isn't really free to write about other subjects, so the cathartic element is somehow beside the point.
Louise McCready: Joyce Carol Oates on A Widow's Story Louise McCready 2011
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Mr. Tully plays the prodigal, hirsute and nearly mute football hero Cornelius Rawlings , who returns to the family farm and his misfit brothers: Amos (Onar Tukel), a recluse who exorcises demons in grotesque illustrations, and Ezra ( Robert Longstreet ), a religious nut and crossdresser who flutters about like an obsessive mother hen.
Bombshells and Boxers Steve Dollar 2011
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Not a movie, but I also watched an episode of this BBC show Apparitions - about a Catholic priest who exorcises demons in modern London - and quite enjoyed it, particularly the emotional honesty of the characters portrayed.
intertribal: comprehensive review of way too many movies intertribal 2010
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It isn't really clear whether writing about something exorcises it, or exacerbates it, but the writer enthralled by a personal event, or traumatized by it, isn't really free to write about other subjects, so the cathartic element is somehow beside the point.
Louise McCready: Joyce Carol Oates on A Widow's Story Louise McCready 2011
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Los Angeles is a town that exorcises its demons—cursed properties are seized and razed.
John Belushi Is Dead Kathy Charles 2010
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Southern country boy who exorcises his demons making late night broadcasts to phantom military units.
Nov. 4th, 2008 - Issue 0.003 z0mbieastronaut 2008
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