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Definition
to drive away (get rid of) — especially a feeling or idea
- I was quite a little startled myself, for it seemed for an instant as if the stranger had great eyes like burning flames, but a second look dispelled the illusion.Chapter 8 (43% in)
- We gazed so eagerly that Arthur rose, for he had been seated on the ground, and came and looked too, and then a glad strange light broke over his face and dispelled altogether the gloom of horror that lay upon it.Chapter 16 (86% in)
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