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What does exorcise mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To drive out an evil spirit from a person, place or thing, especially by an incantation or prayer
  2. (transitive) To rid a person, place or thing of an evil spirit
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The tone veers from serious to comic horror at this point and encompasses several botched attempts to exorcise the ghost.
The sound generated by the bamboo could both arouse gods to be appeased or exorcise evil spirits.
Residents would even pray to some of the edifices to exorcise evil spirits and bring good weather for crops.
Steinbeck's appreciation of him is partly an obituary, partly an attempt to exorcise his ghost.
And they are having trouble and have had trouble for years, decades, trying to exorcise him from their lives.
His troubled spirit was said to have haunted a certain home, and the bottle apparently was an attempt by a priest to exorcise the spirit.

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