All 4 Uses of
dispel
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- It was dim inside, with a damp coolness slowly dispelled by the gathering congregation.
p. 159..8 *dispelled = driven away
- The remainder of the afternoon went by in the gentle gloom that descends when relatives appear, but was dispelled when we heard a car turn in the driveway.
p. 171..2
- There were few women and children among them, which seemed to dispel the holiday mood.
p. 216..7dispel = drive away
- In long equity hearings, especially after dinner, he gave the impression of dozing, an impression dispelled forever when a lawyer once deliberately pushed a pile of books to the floor in a desperate effort to wake him up.
p. 220..3dispelled = driven away
Definition:
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(dispel) to drive away (get rid of) -- especially a feeling or idea