exorcize

verb

1. （用祈祷或法术）祛除（邪恶），驱（魔）
   to make an evil spirit leave a place or sb's body by special prayers or magic
2. 消除，除去（不好的或痛苦的想法）
   to remove sth that is bad or painful from your mind
   1. She had managed to exorcize these unhappy memories from her mind.
      她终于把这些不愉快的记忆从头脑中抹掉了。

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 exorcise


1. VERB 消除，驱散（痛苦、不愉快的回忆等）
   If you exorcize a painful or unhappy memory, you succeed in removing it from your mind.
   1. He confronted his childhood trauma and tried to exorcise the pain...
      他正视自己儿时所受的创伤，努力消除心中的痛苦。
   2. The birth of my second daughter has finally exorcised these feelings of guilt.
      二女儿的出生最终消除了我的负罪感。
2. VERB （通过祈祷或宗教仪式）驱（邪），驱除（妖魔）
   To exorcize an evil spirit or to exorcize a place or person means to force the spirit to leave the place or person by means of prayers and religious ceremonies.
   1. They came to our house and exorcised me...
      他们来到我们家为我驱邪。
   2. Last year, a 15-year-old girl, alleged to be possessed by the devil, was exorcised live on TV.
      去年，一名据称被鬼上身的15岁女孩的驱邪过程在电视上直播。

1. She had managed to exorcize these unhappy memories from her mind.
   她终于把这些不愉快的记忆从头脑中抹掉了。
2. This novel is an attempt to exorcize his personal demons.
   这部小说是为了祛除他的心魔。
3. So you should exorcize the demons by calling a stop and replace them with good thoughts.
   因此，你应该通过调整停止沮丧，让具有良好的思想取代他们。
4. It undertakes a new responsibility: Playing as a sorcerer to exorcize from the countryside.
   它承担起了一种新的职责：扮演一个巫师的角色为农村“驱邪”。
5. We can make little progress in working toward optimum population size until we explicitly exorcize the spirit of Adam Smith in the field of practical demography.
   迈向人口最佳数目，我们要驱逐亚当‧史密的实践人口学的幽灵，才可以取得寸进。

verb

1. expel through adjuration or prayers
   1. exorcise evil spirits

   Synonym:    exorcise