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v. - Inject with libidinal energy.

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Usage examples (9)
  • Peck uses the word cathect divisively, claiming that people can only
  • She refuses to "cathect" to the trial, and I would be derelict in my responsibility if I failed to point out that Microsoft Word 2002 does not recognize the existence of...
  • But there is not yet a self sufficient for him to cathect to in the way that he had cathected to her.
  • Even more conveniently, the left has the right's history of racism, the bloodstain on its nightshirt, onto which we can cathect all our hostilities in one easy swing.
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