All 23 Uses of
dispel
in
The Ramayana
- His wanderings in the forest o'er, Thine eyes shall see thy son once more, Quit thy faint heart, thy grief dispel, For this, O Queen, is truth I tell.†
Book 2 *
- I mourn my parents now no more: I count dear Bharat's virtues o'er, And his kind love and care dispel The doubts I had, and all is well.†
Book 2
- Now Ráma, ere the night was fled, O'er many a league of road had sped, Till, as his course he onward held, The morn the shades of night dispelled.†
Book 2
- How to Kausalyá can I say: "O Queen, I took thy son away, And with thy brother left him well: Weep not for him; thy woe dispel?"†
Book 2
- But when the dawn dispelled the night, Ráma approached the anchorite, And thus addressed the holy sire Whose glory shone like kindled fire: "Well have we spent, O truthful Sage, The night within thy hermitage: Now let my lord his guests permit For their new home his grove to quit."†
Book 2
- The dust which countless hoofs excite Obscures the sky and veils the light; But see, swift winds those clouds dispel As if they strove to please me well.†
Book 2
- Dispel my torturing doubt and say.†
Book 3
- O how blest are those On whom the breath of Pampá blows, Dispelling all their care and gloom With sweets from where the lilies bloom!†
Book 4
- Ah, if the proud oppressor fell, His death would all my woe dispel.†
Book 4
- For this, when heard and pondered well, Will all complaint and rage dispel.†
Book 4
- Then Tára softly spake to cheer The Vánars' hearts oppressed by fear: "Despair no more, your doubts dispel: Come in this ample cavern dwell.†
Book 4
- Those hopeful words the hermit spake, That bid me live for Ráma's sake, Dispel my anguish as the light Of lamp and torch disperse the night.†
Book 4
- Then noble Angad spake to cheer The Vánars and dispel their fear: "Faint not: despair should never find Admittance to a noble mind.†
Book 4
- Soon as his stature they beheld, Their fear and sorrow were dispelled; And joyous praises loud and long Rang out from all the Vánar throng.†
Book 4
- "Thy fear and doubt," he cried, "dispelled, Hear, lady, what mine eyes beheld.†
Book 5
- "O come," he cried, "thy fears dispel, Nor doubt that I will bear thee well.†
Book 5
- This cloud of causeless woe dispel, For all as yet has prospered well, And we have traced thy queen, and know The dwelling of our Rákshas foe.†
Book 6
- Let rising hope thy grief dispel: Look up and smile, for all is well, And gentle Lakshmí, Fortune's Queen, Regards thee with a favouring mien.†
Book 6
- á,(958) of gentler mould Though Rákshas born, her grief consoled: "Dear Queen, thy causeless woe dispel: Thy husband lives, and all is well.†
Book 6
- But Báli's son with gentle art Dispelled their dread and cheered each heart.†
Book 6
- The trembling bears and Vánars cheer, Calm their sad hearts, dispel their fear.†
Book 6
- Now, gentle love, thy cares dispel, And weep no more, for all is well.†
Book 6
- Dispelled by thee the doom that spread Through trembling earth and heaven is fled.†
Book 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(dispel) to drive away (get rid of) -- especially a feeling or idea
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) 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."