Synonyms of exorcising

exorcising

verb

variants also exorcizing

present participle of exorcise

as in dumping

to get rid of as useless or unwanted

please exorcise that offensive word from your vocabulary

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dumping
• discarding
• unloading
• ditching
• losing
• abandoning
• shedding
• removing
• rejecting
• jettisoning
• eliminating
• scrapping
• tossing
• chucking
• casting (off)
• junking
• disposing of
• sloughing (off)
• flinging (off or away)
• shucking (off)
• throwing away
• dismissing
• eradicating
• eighty-sixing
• laying by
• deep-sixing
• setting aside
• sluffing (off)
• throwing out
• forsaking
• pitching
• cashiering
• abolishing
• abdicating
• expunging
• exterminating
• extirpating
• deserting
• extinguishing
• annihilating
• kicking out
• wiping out
• liquidating
• stamping (out)
• rooting (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• adopting
• embracing
• using
• employing
• utilizing
• retaining
• holding
• keeping
• taking on
• holding back

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of exorcising

There’s something freeing about exorcising negativity through song that keeps people coming back. — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026

But on Wednesday afternoon in Atlanta, England was a mere five minutes away, plus stoppage time, from going back to the final for the first time in six decades, and coming one precious step closer from exorcizing all its World Cup demons. — Sean Gregory, Time, 15 July 2026

But in the early days of the Maniacs, everyone swears that Merchant was a shrieking dervish during shows, exorcising her teenage demons on the stage of every bar in the Rust Belt. — Dan Kois, Pitchfork, 17 May 2026

Before exorcizing their demons from tournaments past. — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026

Turn the calendar ahead six weeks, and the Tigers were at the Tsongas Center on Saturday, exorcising two years worth of frustration. — Matt Roy, Boston Herald, 14 Mar. 2026

Yeah, exorcising that demon of just kind of singing about it, putting it on paper, and then just kind of exhaling and let that go, that's an important process. — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026

My experiment was about more than exorcising the demons of my inbox. — Cal Newport, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025

The Mets spent last autumn exorcising demons and this fall conjuring new ones to take their place. — Tim Britton, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025