All 7 Uses

dispel
in
Cinder, by Marissa Meyer
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CINDER BLINKED RAPIDLY, TRYING TO DISPEL THE FOG FROM her brain.†
p. 97.1 *
Gray lightbulbs hummed overhead, but they did little to dispel the darkness.†
p. 146.1
Her expression was stern—bitter—but the look did nothing to dispel her uncanny beauty.†
p. 204.8
Kai shook his head, trying to dispel his surprise.†
p. 213.1
Buffeting fans on the ceiling did little to dispel the sweltering heat or the smell of death.†
p. 258.8
It felt as if her body were trying to dispel all her cyborg parts—explosions and sparks and smoke tearing at her flesh.†
p. 363.5
Some foreign substance had invaded her blood that her system did not recognize and could not dispel.†
p. 363.9

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."