📚 Dispel, verb.
🔉 /dɪˈspɛl/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (with object): Make (a doubt, feeling, or belief) disappear.
❗️ Examples:
1. The brightness of the day did nothing to dispel Elaine's dejection.
2. Actually listening to the record does little to dispel these feelings of disappointment.
3. Such words dispelled any doubts, despair or lingering suspicions.
4. Perhaps it is actually a canny psychological technique for dispelling any last minute doubts.
5. Many analysts thought Standard was paying too high a premium for control of the bank in January, but these doubts could be dispelled by a positive update on its integration.
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