All 7 Uses

dispel
in
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
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She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, rose to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.†
Chpt 1
This illusion, or hope of one, was dispelled as her eyes adjusted to the gloom.†
Chpt 1 *
These are fleeting moments of private disquiet, only dispelled by abandoning herself to the joy and excitement of those around her.†
Chpt 1
This impression was dispelled early on when a probationer in Briony's year, a large, kindly, slow-moving girl with a cow's harmless gaze, met the lacerating force of the ward sister's fury.†
Chpt 3
The brisk air of spring did not dispel the stench of engine oil and festering wounds.†
Chpt 3
IN THE DAYS that followed, the reversion to a strict shift system dispelled the sense of floating timelessness of those first twenty-four hours.†
Chpt 3
Daylight, and the banality of family small talk, would dispel whatever impact she had made as a ghostly illuminated apparition.†
Chpt 3

Definitions:

(1) (dispel)
to drive away or put an end to something -- especially a feeling, idea, or doubt
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Dispel is generally used to in reference to getting rid of ideas or feelings, but more rarely, it can be used to reference the scattering away of something physical as in: "The noise dispelled the pigeons."