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# dispel

«dispel» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make a feeling, fear, doubt or false belief go away** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (dispel, dispels, dispelled, dispelling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make a feeling, fear, doubt or false belief go away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dispel/#m1)

2) (less common) To drive away or scatter something, like fog or clouds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dispel/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and fact-checking, people dispel myths with evidence; in stories, a kind word dispels fear; phrases: «dispel a myth», «dispel fears», «dispel rumours».

### examples

- The scientist dispelled the myth that goldfish have a three-second memory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dispel/#x1)
- Her smile dispelled my worries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dispel/#x2)
- The sun soon dispelled the morning mist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dispel/#x3)
- The teacher tried to dispel rumours about the school closing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dispel/#x4)
- Turning on the light dispelled our fear of the dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dispel/#x5)
- The facts dispelled any doubt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dispel/#x6)
- We wrote a leaflet to dispel common myths about bats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dispel/#x7)
- However, he soon perceived her melancholy, and in a thousand ways strove to dispel the cloud, but in vain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dispel/#x8)

### note

Double l in past forms: dispelled, dispelling. Spelling trap: only one «l» in dispel. Used with myths, fears, doubts, rumours, not with physical objects (you do not «dispel» a ball).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dispel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dispel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.