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Definition
to drive away (get rid of) — especially a feeling or idea
- 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. 216.7
- 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. 220.3
dispelled = driven away
dispel = drive away
dispelled = driven away
There are no more uses of "dispel" in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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