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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
exorcize .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I didn't clean, so we hired a maid who said she would do it only if our house were exorcized.
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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
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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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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
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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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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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