exorcise

exorcise

verb

Definition of EXORCISE

to get rid of as useless or unwanted <please exorcise that offensive word from your vocabulary>

Synonyms cashier, cast (off), chuck, deep-six, ditch, dump, eighty-six (or 86), exorcise (also exorcize), fling (off or away), jettison, junk, lay by, lose, pitch, reject, scrap, shed, shuck (off), slough (off) also sluff (off), throw away, throw out, toss, unload

Related Words abandon, abdicate, desert, forsake; dismiss, kick out; abolish, annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, remove, root (out), stamp (out), wipe out

Near Antonyms adopt, embrace, take on; employ, use, utilize; hold, hold back, keep, retain

Variants of EXORCISE

exorcise also exorcize