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exorcize

 verb
     
Related topics: Occult
ex‧or‧cize also exorcise British English [transitive]
1RO to force evil spirits to leave a place by using special words and ceremonies
2 to make yourself forget a bad memory or experience:
trying to exorcise the past
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