ABREACT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abreact mean? 

• ABREACT (verb)
  The verb ABREACT has 1 sense:

1. discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization

  Familiarity information: ABREACT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABREACT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they abreact    ... he / she / it abreacts   
Past simple: abreacted   
Past participle: abreacted   
-ing form: abreacting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "abreact" is one way to...):

allay; ease; relieve; still (lessen the intensity of or calm)

Domain category:

analysis; depth psychology; psychoanalysis (a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

abreaction ((psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions)