exorcise
Meaning of exorcise
verb
- drive out or attempt to drive out (a supposed evil spirit) from a person or place.
an attempt to exorcise an unquiet spirit
late Middle English: from French exorciser or ecclesiastical Latin exorcizare, from Greek exorkizein, from ex- ‘out’ + horkos ‘oath’. The word originally meant ‘conjure up an evil spirit’; the current sense dates from the mid 16th century.
Information about exorcise
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of exorcise is: exorcises.
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Hyphenation of exorcise
ex-or-cise
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- exorcise is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
exorcise synonyms
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