All 5 Uses of
dispel
in
Atlas Shrugged
- "Yes," he said, and shook his head as if to dispel some vision, "only I don't like to say that."†
Chpt 2.10 *
- All we want is a chance to dispel misapprehensions.†
Chpt 3.8
- His hands moved frantically, as if struggling to dispel something he would not name.†
Chpt 3.8
- It was not by means of words that this knowledge confronted his consciousness: as all his knowledge had consisted of emotions, so now he was held by an emotion and a vision that he had no power to dispel.†
Chpt 3.9
- He had to admit to himself what images were nagging him with a sense of uneasiness he could neither grasp nor dispel; they were too meaningless to define and too inexplicable to dismiss.†
Chpt 3.10
Definition:
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(dispel) to drive away (get rid of) -- especially a feeling or idea