"confront one's demons" meaning in English

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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "confronting one's demons",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "confronted one's demons",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "confronted one's demons",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "text": "But a personal and almost menopausal crisis brings him back to an Edinburgh he hardly recognises. As if in a Sergio Leone film, Renton has an obscure need to return, to confront the demons of his past, in particular the three guys he ripped off after a drug deal at the end of the last story.",
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        "To work through past experiences that have left emotional scars."
      ],
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          "work through",
          "work through"
        ],
        [
          "past",
          "past"
        ],
        [
          "experience",
          "experience"
        ],
        [
          "emotional",
          "emotional"
        ],
        [
          "scar",
          "scar"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To work through past experiences that have left emotional scars."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "face one's demons"
        },
        {
          "word": "meet one's demons"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "confronting one's demons",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "confronted one's demons",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "confronted one's demons",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      },
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          "ref": "2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian:",
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        "To work through past experiences that have left emotional scars."
      ],
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          "past",
          "past"
        ],
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          "experience",
          "experience"
        ],
        [
          "emotional",
          "emotional"
        ],
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          "scar",
          "scar"
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        "(idiomatic) To work through past experiences that have left emotional scars."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "face one's demons"
    },
    {
      "word": "meet one's demons"
    }
  ],
  "word": "confront one's demons"
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