Definitions for exorcise

exorcise ex·or·cise

Spelling: [ek-sawr-sahyz, -ser-]
IPA: /ˈɛk sɔrˌsaɪz, -sər-/

Exorcise is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in exorcise (ceeiorsx).

Definitions for exorcise

verb (used with object)

  1. to seek to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration or religious or solemn ceremonies:
  2. to free (a person, place, etc.) of evil spirits or malignant influences.

Origin of exorcise

1350-1400; Middle English Late Latin exorcizāre Greek exorkízein, equivalent to ex- ex-3 + (h)orkízein to cause (someone) to swear an oath

Examples for exorcise

The demon replied, "It is not customary to exorcise in that tongue."

As drivers will, she tried to exorcise the creeping fear by singing.

A man riding on the mare entered the Church with a friend, to exorcise the Spirit.

In the God-fearing, heavily Baptist town of West Memphis, devil worshiping became a scourge to exorcise.

Some monks of the abbey were requested to come also and exorcise the spirit.

He's certainly done a lot to exorcise the whole Reagan era, and this is him at his best.

They exorcise the Sudhiniyas or the drinkers of human blood.

There is nothing like beef and beer to exorcise evil spirits.

“Let us exorcise your devil with a pottle of hot ale,” he suggested.

Does it merely take a united family leveling threats all at once to exorcise some of the demonic powers of addiction?

Word Value for exorcise
Scrable

17

Words with friends

18

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