exorcise
verb (used with object)
to seek to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration or religious or solemn ceremonies.
will exorcise
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future tenseof exorcise.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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She doesn’t think writing about her fears will exorcise them, immediately rejecting the notion of writing as catharsis.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2021
Watching them thrive will exorcise memories of the World Cup soon enough.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2014
I begin drawing what’s in my head, as if maybe by drawing it, it will exorcise the super bugs from my brain.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
This pharmacist will exorcise his pain-demon; that electrician place him en rapport with kindred hundreds of miles away, or fortify his jaded nerves.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various
But I will wrestle for your soul,—yea, night and day will I bend my spiritual sinews to the task,—I will obtain the victory,—I will exorcise the fiend!
From Thelma by Marie Corelli
