(v. t.) 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. t.) To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The draw was enough to take England to the finals in Japan, where Beckham exorcised the demons of four years earlier by scoring the only goal (a dubiously awarded penalty) in the defeat of Argentina.
(2) The ghosts of Barbara Castle and Peter Shore , never mind Hugh Gaitskell (and, for much of his life, Harold Wilson), were never quite exorcised by the New Labour Europhiles.
(3) Woods certainly appears to have exorcised the demons that have haunted him in recent years, after his world collapsed in spectacular circumstances four years ago.
(4) The next day I began to draw, half-copying the woodcuts from the Chronicle, half exorcising my memory.
(5) Three minutes before the break Andy Taylor, a player with his own Wembley demons to exorcise having missed a crucial penalty here in the 2012 League One play-off final shootout when with Sheffield United, sent a dipping volley narrowly over the bar.
(6) In his unpretentious and beautifully written book, Guinness exorcised a long-suppressed anxiety about his origins.
(7) Mark Hoban has "ghosts to exorcise" from his bright corner office in Whitehall.
(8) Children and their services have been prey to causes célèbres, fashion and the exaggerated fads and foibles of the media and politicians; they have thrived best when society and their carers were tolerant, and loving, sought good qualities to augment, not evil to exorcise, and succeeded in balancing structure and control with flexibility and freedom to grow.
(9) Government officials say the trials, which human rights groups have criticised for failing to observe due process, are necessary to "exorcise historical ghosts".
(10) Psychoanalytic treatment is a cognitive technique for "exorcising" certain identifications by delineating them and then neutralizing them through understanding.
(11) The topic, again, is love and its discontents – Ware recently married and wanted to exorcise the ghosts of previous relationships.
(12) But there is a great deal of sympathy for the young team which is under immense pressure to win the World Cup on home turf and exorcise memories of the defeat by Uruguay in the 1950 final at the Maracanã.
(13) It sounded like a werewolf exorcising a roomful of crucified sopranos.)
(14) Brazilian Marcelo Huertas fed Larry Nance Jr for an alley-oop dunk in the fourth that had the fans cheering, seemingly exorcising the demons of another losing season for the once-proud franchise with the league’s third-worst record.
(15) Obama's foreign policy presidency has, in many respects, been an exercise in exorcising the demons of Iraq – and the mindset that made the war possible – from the American psyche.
(16) One of the offenders suggests that it's to exorcise the guilt he feels about Nannie's son James.
(17) Why break into song and dance to exorcise your inner emotions when you can talk yourself through it?
(18) It wasn't until the 1980s that he commanded his fiction to shine a documentary torch into his own life, to illuminate, and perhaps to exorcise his Shanghai ghosts.
(19) The demand that gay people “repent” or be exorcised (as one Nigerian bishop attempted with a gay campaigner in 1998) was neither acceptable nor even comprehensible in England by 2008, and still less today.
(20) Everyone now and then wants a hug.” Gasquet, who exorcised the demons of last year when he lost to Kyrgios in five sets and forfeited nine match points, said his opponent was “a very nice guy” but “was a little bit angry, a little bit frustrated” during the contentious episode in the second set.
Rid
Definition:
() imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.
(imp. & p. p.) of Rid
(v. t.) To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of.
(v. t.) To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of.
(v. t.) To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy.
(v. t.) To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish.
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Example Sentences:
(1) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
(2) "Seller reports are key to identifying bad buyers and ridding them from our marketplace," says eBay.
(3) A man in New Zealand suggested that they need to rid the country of cats to protect their native birds.
(4) In a day of chaos for the Lib Dems, Cable strongly denied being involved in attempts by his friend, Lord Oakeshott, to get rid of Clegg, insisting he was strongly behind his leader.
(5) Annual savings in tonnes of CO 2 Install 2 kilowatt solar PV panels 0.4 Buy a new A++ refrigerator if yours is more than 4 years old, and only use a small-screen TV 0.1 Use LED or fluorescent lights where you currently have halogen lights installed 0.1 Buy an automated system to turn off appliances when not in use; get a meter that shows actual energy use and use it to monitor your household 0.1 Only use your washing machine and dishwasher when full to capacity and at lowest temperature 0.1 Never use the tumble dryer 0.1 Get rid of the freezer if you can, and replace your small appliances with "eco" varieties 0.1 Car (1.5 tonnes of CO 2 ) There is one car for every two people in the UK, and each one travels an average of about 9,000 miles a year.
(6) Sadly, there was probably no other way to get rid of Tantawi as minister without Morsi losing his shirt (or his head.
(7) Ultimately, I need to get rid of of crayfish and crayfish products – my dreams are so much bigger than what we are doing right now.
(8) However, the policy is not being replaced and it suggests that Cameron has lost interest in what was once a key plank of his attempt to modernise the Conservative party and is quietly “ getting rid of the green crap ”, as he once called the extra costs attached to heating bills to subsidise energy efficiency.
(9) "If we come up to 30 June saying that we want democracy, that we want to get rid of religious fascism, and then you see that this happens," Youssef said, "it really doesn't send a good message to the world."
(10) What the Fed isn’t saying is how it plans to get rid of the enormous number of bonds it has bought.
(11) Results using the RID assay in 16 humans and 17 bat liver specimens were compared with those obtained using the Lactobacillus leichmannii microbiological assay.
(12) I told him, but he started saying: 'How can I get rid of this snake?'"
(13) Well, it would be taken more seriously if this newspaper had not been so vehemently committed itself to getting rid of Tony Blair and to putting Gordon Brown in his place.
(14) Despite a consistent antirheumatic therapy (72% on RID's after one year) there was a noticeable increase from 23 to 58% in the prevalence of patients with any erosive changes in the X-ray.
(15) "You can't get rid of a tax responsibly without also getting rid of the spending.
(16) Thank God we have succeeded in ridding ourselves of sectarianism and racism."
(17) These were taken out in 1967 by Australia’s most successful referendum, with more than 90% voting to get rid of this discrimination.
(18) So they got rid of the car, installed low-energy bulbs , insulation and draught-proofing, and a year-and-a-half ago they bought a wood-burning stove .
(19) The review concedes this, and changed the rationale it used to argue in favour of getting rid of the RET.
(20) Attempts to use the phage to rid crown gall tissue of bacteria were unsuccessful.