dispel
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/icons/point.icon SCATTER, DISPERSE, DISSIPATE, DISPEL mean to cause to separate or break up.
SCATTER implies a force that drives parts or units irregularly in many directions.
e.g. the bowling ball scattered the pins
DISPERSE implies a wider separation and a complete breaking up of a mass or group.
e.g. police dispersed the crowd
DISSIPATE stresses complete disintegration or dissolution and final disappearance.
e.g. the fog was dissipated by the morning sun
DISPEL stresses a driving away or getting rid of as if by scattering.
e.g. an authoritative statement that dispelled all doubt
verb (dispels, dispelling, dispelled) with object
make (a doubt, feeling, or belief) disappear:
〈心配･恐怖など〉を払いのける; 〈うわさ･疑いなど〉を晴らす
e.g. the brightness of the day did nothing to dispel Elaine's dejection.
DERIVATIVES
dispeller noun
ORIGIN
late Middle English: from Latin dispellere, from dis- ‘apart’ + pellere ‘to drive’.