EXORCISING Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

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

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Recent Examples of exorcising 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 Normally, a video of your favorite singer ferociously digging a hole in the ground in a grassy meadow and then screaming into the void as if exorcising a demon would be cause for concern. — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 Aug. 2025

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Auger-Aliassime was moving lethargically, not showing a lot of energy, dumping water on his head during changeovers to cool down.

— Lukas Weese, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
On Thursday morning, crews in bright yellow vests were using large lifts to reach the top of the mill’s western side and were dumping debris into nearby train cars.

— Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of dumping

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During the response, drone pilots spotted the man discarding a rifle outside the residence, police said.

— Richard Ramos, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
That method involves preserving the initial prompt and the last several thousand reasoning tokens, but discarding many of the intermediate reasoning tokens.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of discarding

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With resellers scooping up a huge swath of the Open’s face-value tickets and unloading them at whatever price the (admittedly flush) market will bear, more and more fans in Ashe have little or no interest in what’s actually happening on the court.

— Corey Seymour, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026
Doxsee’s job consisted mostly of physical labor—unloading boxcars of grain and other materials, hauling them around the factory, and working the bagging machine on the building’s top floor.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of unloading

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Cate Blanchett is ditching her signature platinum-blonde bob—temporarily.

— Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 4 Sep. 2026
As for how Jason’s family would react to him ditching his signature beard, his wife, Kylie Kelce, recently responded to a listener who asked how their four daughters might react to him shaving off his beard on her Not Gonna Lie podcast.

— Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of ditching

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But at this point, many SEC administrators would rather find out by getting a win or by losing and then moving forward with that knowledge.

— Seth Emerson, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The tropical cyclone reached Category 5, defined by sustained winds of 157 mph or greater, overnight Friday before losing some of its steam and settling into Category 4’s limits of sustained winds of 130 to 156 mph by Saturday.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026

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