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abreact

/ˌæb.ɹiˈækt/

abreact verb: to eliminate previously repressed emotions by reliving past experiences.

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Verb

abreact (third-person singular simple present abreacts, present participle abreacting, simple past and past participle abreacted)

  1. (transitive) To eliminate previously repressed emotions by reliving past experiences.
    • HEATHER: But he'd deny it afterwards. Same thing all over. / DYSART: No. Because he's ready to abreact. / HEATHER: Abreact? / DYSART: Live it all again.1973, Peter Shaffer, “Act II, Scene 25”, in Equus, page 79

abreact meaning in Urdu

abreact in Urdu

شِفا با لکلام, فَرو کَرنا, رَدِّ فِشار کَرنا

Forms of abreact

third-person singular presentabreacts
present participleabreacting
past participleabreacted
pastabreacted

Origin of abreact

Partial calque of German abreagieren, from ab (“away from, off, down from”) + reagieren (“to react”), equivalent to ab- + react.

Words formed from abreact

Questions about abreact

What does abreact mean?
Abreact means to eliminate previously repressed emotions by reliving past experiences.
What is abreact in Urdu?
Abreact in Urdu is شِفا با لکلام, فَرو کَرنا, رَدِّ فِشار کَرنا. See Abreact meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is abreact?
Abreact is a verb.
How do you pronounce abreact?
Abreact is pronounced /ˌæb.ɹiˈækt/ (US).
What is the past tense of abreact?
The past tense of abreact is abreacted.

Words near abreact in the dictionary

  1. abraying
  2. abrays
  3. abrazo
  4. abrazos
  5. Abre
  6. abreact
  7. abreacted
  8. abreacting
  9. abreaction
  10. abreactions
  11. abreactive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abreact (page history and authors); abreact (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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