• IPA: [dɪˈspɛɫ]

dispel (dispels, present participle dispelling; past and past participle dispelled)

1. (transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
2. (transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
   • 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828 ↗, page 01 ↗:

     It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.

• French: chasser, dissiper
• German: zerstreuen
• Portuguese: dissipar, dispersar
• Russian: разве́ивать
• Spanish: disipar

dispel (plural dispels)

1. An act or instance of dispelling.
   • 2008, Caitlin Kittredge, Night Life ↗

     “My dispel didn't work,” she said finally. “He wasn't a blood witch, Sunny,” I said.

• dispulsion