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She tried to dispel the tension in the room with a lighthearted joke.dispel = drive away
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No amount of evidence could fully dispel the rumor once it had spread online.dispel = get rid of
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The explanation helped dispel her fears about starting the new job.dispel = drive away
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The sunshine did little to dispel the gloom that hung over the rainy town.
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There were few women and children among them, which seemed to dispel the holiday mood. (source)
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... there were good and bad people everywhere. The more I embraced those who were good, the more I hoped to dispel the evil from my life. (source)
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To dispel Franz's suspicion, I hand him an assortment of photographs I'd taken on a trip to Alaska the previous summer, during which I'd retraced McCandless's terminal journey on the Stampede Trail.† (source)
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I thought you said they could be dispelled for a lifetime.† (source)
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It seemed to burn feeling back into him, dispelling the numbness and sense of unreality firing him with something that was like courage.† (source)
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Medical science does not seal the earth, whose nether creatures seep out, hair by hair, disguised like the smoke that dispels them.† (source)
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Finish'd the days, the clouds dispel'd The travail o'er, the long-sought extrication, When lo!† (source)
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Perhaps, as he approached his death, he had a troubling sense that he'd be remembered as a fiend and wished to dispel that notion.† (source)
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Ezra—er, Mr. Fitz—had dispelled the laughing quickly, and come up with the lamest excuse for swearing in class.† (source)
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Robert might normally have smiled at this but the aggression in her voice was dispelling the seasonal glow he had come home with.† (source)
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This dispels her first embarrassment, and the two begin to talk.† (source)
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3 Aloof, dissatisfied, plotting revolt, Comrade of criminals, brother of slaves, Crafty, despised, a drudge, ignorant, With sudra face and worn brow, black, but in the depths of my heart, proud as any, Lifted now and always against whoever scorning assumes to rule me, Morose, full of guile, full of reminiscences, brooding, with many wiles, (Though it was thought I was baffled, and dispel'd, and my wiles done, but that will never be,) Defiant, I, Satan, still live, still utter words, in new lands duly appearing, (and old ones also,) Permanent here from my side, warlike, equal with any, real as any, Nor time nor change shall ever change me or my words.† (source)
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