therap

present singular third person theraps · participle present therapping · participle past therapped · past therapped

1. nonstandardrareTo administer therapy.

   When we counsel, when we analyse, when we therap.

   2002, Josephine Klein, Challenges to Practice, foreword

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   But the real problems of life, the insoluble ones of death and pain, illness, and the irreversibility of time and of old age and the like are all insoluble and cannot be therapped away.

   1962, Abraham Harold Maslow, Summer Notes on Social Psychology of Industry and Management at Non-Linear Systems, Inc., Del Mar, California, page 40

   […] the difficult cases which should have gone where they could be therapped or whatever the psychoanalysts do, and don't get there.

   1964, Institute for Juvenile Court Judges and Referees, Proceedings, page 195

   Or to put it another way, if I want therapy I'll get therapped by my comrades at home, and if I travel to a conference I want to confer.

   1979, Peace News for Nonviolent Revolution - Issues 2087-2110