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Webster 1913 Edition
Dispel
Dis-pel′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dispelled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dispelling
.] To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate;
as, to
. dispel
a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions[Satan] gently raised
their fainting courage, and
their fainting courage, and
dispelled
their fears. Milton.
I saw myself the lambent easy light
Gild the brown horror, and
Gild the brown horror, and
dispel
the night. Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dispel
DISPEL
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
dispel
dispel
English
Verb
dispel (third-person singular simple present dispels, present participle dispelling, simple past and past participle dispelled)
- To drive away by scattering, or to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate.
- 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828:
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
- 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828:
Usage notes
- Objects: cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions, objections.
Translations
to drive away by scattering
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Noun
dispel (plural dispels)
- An act or instance of dispelling.
- 2008, Caitlin Kittredge, Night Life
- “My dispel didn't work,” she said finally. “He wasn't a blood witch, Sunny,” I said.
- 2008, Caitlin Kittredge, Night Life