exorcise
verb (used with object)
to seek to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration or religious or solemn ceremonies.
was exorcising
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past progressiveof exorcise.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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She was again confronting that spectre which for years had lain buried and which the man before her was exorcising back to life.
From Tides of Barnegat by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Silent and wondering he lay very still, conscious that by some subtle power she was exorcising the demons of pain.
From Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe
