MEANING
To release or express an emotion that had been repressed or forgotten, especially in psychoanalytic discussion.
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In the novel’s therapy scene, she tries to abreact anger she had pushed aside for years.
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- Base
- abreact
- Past tense
- abreacted
- Past participle
- abreacted
- Present participle
- abreacting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- abreact
- Present continuous
- am/is/are abreacting
- Present perfect
- have/has abreacted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been abreacting
- Past
- abreacted
- Past continuous
- was/were abreacting
- Past perfect
- had abreacted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been abreacting
- Future
- will abreact
- Future continuous
- will be abreacting
- Future perfect
- will have abreacted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been abreacting
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