therap

English

Etymology

Back-formation from therapist.

Verb

therap (third-person singular simple present theraps, present participle therapping, simple past and past participle therapped)

1. (nonstandard, rare) To administer therapy.
   • 1962, Abraham Harold Maslow, Summer Notes on Social Psychology of Industry and Management at Non-Linear Systems, Inc., Del Mar, California, page 40:

     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.

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

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

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

     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.

   • 2002, Josephine Klein, Challenges to Practice, foreword:

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

Anagrams

• Tharpe, hapter, pather, tephra, teraph, threap