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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dispel.

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Examples

  • THE WARMTH OF THE MARQUIS’s greeting bolstered Kate’s flagging spirits, and the kindness in his expression dispelled any lingering discomfort occasioned by MacNeill’s sardonic manner.

    My Seduction Connie Brockway 2004

  • THE WARMTH OF THE MARQUIS’s greeting bolstered Kate’s flagging spirits, and the kindness in his expression dispelled any lingering discomfort occasioned by MacNeill’s sardonic manner.

    My Seduction Connie Brockway 2004

  • THE WARMTH OF THE MARQUIS’s greeting bolstered Kate’s flagging spirits, and the kindness in his expression dispelled any lingering discomfort occasioned by MacNeill’s sardonic manner.

    My Seduction Connie Brockway 2004

  • Paladin dispelled the forcewall he had created and started towards the girl, who was staring at him apparently dumbfounded at being rescued.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Jmilb’s Review Forum 2009

  • "The doubts about the health of the European banks need to be dispelled, which is why the stress tests are so important."

    European regulators to publish doomsday scenarios for banks 2010

  • Reading the afterword dispelled any hope of that; which is a pity since it seemed like the manga was growing into its potential.

    Manga Review: Murder Princess, Volume Two | The Anime Blog 2007

  • Nor was the idea dispelled when she stopped and faced him in the privacy of her room with her eyes swollen and a trembling under-lip.

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • That word dispelled the dream and the pain which had held Joan, leaving only the tenderness, magnified now a hundredfold.

    The Border Legion Zane Grey 1905

  • That little emphasized word dispelled the hope that had for a moment asserted itself.

    An Original Belle Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • I think the shootings, you know, although a lot of people talk in terms of expert sniper, that sort of thing, I think your expert last night kind of dispelled that notion.

    CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2002 2002

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