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dispel en · NOUN
Pronunciation
[dɪˈspɛɫ] (Southern-England) audio
Etymology From Middle English dispelen, from Latin dispellere (“to disperse; to dispel”).
Meanings
An act or instance of dispelling.
“My dispel didn't work,” she said finally. “He wasn't a blood witch, Sunny,” I said. 2008, Caitlin Kittredge, Night Life:
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dispulsion
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dispel en · VERB
Pronunciation
[dɪˈspɛɫ] (Southern-England) audio
Etymology From Middle English dispelen, from Latin dispellere (“to disperse; to dispel”).
Meanings
(transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
The clouds and mist were soon enough dispelled by the sun.
(transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
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, page 01: The fate of the railway from Ballater to Braemar has been invested with an air of mystery, which has never been completely dispelled. It has been suggested that Queen Victoria was opposed to a railway in the vicinity of Balmoral Castle, and intervened personally to secure the abandonment of the line beyond Ballater. 1957 January 14, H. A. Vallance, “The Deeside Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 6:
(Africa, transitive, with with) To get rid of or manage without.
Forms
Deriveds
undispelled · dispelment · dispellable · dispeller · redispel
Synonyms
cast away · disperse · cast off
Translations (74)
cs rozptylovat (to remove fears etc.) · hy ցրել (to drive away by scattering) · es dispeler (to remove fears etc.) · he פִּזֵּר (to drive away by scattering) · da henvejre (to drive away by scattering) · es difuminar (to remove fears etc.) · km លុបបំបាត់ជំនឿ (to drive away by scattering) · bg разсейвам (to drive away by scattering) · ru рассе́ивать (to drive away by scattering) · fi häivyttää (to drive away by scattering) · nl verdrijven (to drive away by scattering) · be рассе́йваць (to drive away by scattering) · fr chasser (to drive away by scattering) · cy gwasgaru (to drive away by scattering) · ga scaip (to drive away by scattering) · nl verjagen (to drive away by scattering) · ru развеивать (to remove fears etc.) · ru дезавуировать (to remove fears etc.) · cy dileu (to remove fears etc.) · pt dissipar (to drive away by scattering) · es despejar (to remove fears etc.) · ru разве́ять (to drive away by scattering) · cmn 驅散 /驱散 (to drive away by scattering) · fi haihduttaa (to drive away by scattering) · fi hälventää (to drive away by scattering) · cmn 打消 (to drive away by scattering) · ru развенчивать (to remove fears etc.) · nn fordrive (to remove fears etc.) · hu eloszlat (to remove fears etc.) · es desvanecer (to remove fears etc.) · hu eloszlat (to drive away by scattering) · fr dissiper (to drive away by scattering) · ar أَزَالَ (to remove fears etc.) · ast esvalixar (to drive away by scattering) · pl rozwiewać (to drive away by scattering) · cs rozptýlit (to drive away by scattering) · hu elűz (to remove fears etc.) · nn fordrive (to drive away by scattering) · nb spre (to drive away by scattering) · eo dispeli (to drive away by scattering) · de ausräumen (to remove fears etc.) · uk розсі́ювати (to drive away by scattering) · ru рассе́ять (to drive away by scattering) · ro spulbera (to drive away by scattering) · et purustama (to drive away by scattering) · he הֵפִיג (to drive away by scattering) · ga ruaig (to remove fears etc.) · mi whakamahea (to drive away by scattering) · ga ruaig (to drive away by scattering) · mi whakamahea (to remove fears etc.) · ru изобличать (to remove fears etc.) · la dispellō (to drive away by scattering) · nb fordrive (to remove fears etc.) · nb forjage (to remove fears etc.) · bg разпръсквам (to drive away by scattering) · be разве́йваць (to drive away by scattering) · cy chwalu (to drive away by scattering) · oc dissipar (to drive away by scattering) · mi whakakorara (to drive away by scattering) · ru разгоня́ть (to drive away by scattering) · mi tokotoko (to drive away by scattering) · nb forjage (to drive away by scattering) · ru разогна́ть (to drive away by scattering) · nb fordrive (to drive away by scattering) · ca dissipar (to drive away by scattering) · th ขจัด (to drive away by scattering) · ar بَدَّدَ (to remove fears etc.) · uk розві́ювати (to drive away by scattering) · pt dispersar (to drive away by scattering) · hu szétoszlat (to drive away by scattering) · cs rozptýlit (to remove fears etc.) · de zerstreuen (to drive away by scattering) · oc dispersar (to drive away by scattering) · ru разве́ивать (to drive away by scattering)
Source: en.wiktionary, “dispel” (verb), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.