dispel

Syllables: di·spel[dɪˈspɛɫ]

dispel verb: to drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.

Verb

dispel (third-person singular simple present dispels, present participle dispelling, simple past and past participle dispelled)

(transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
- The clouds and mist were soon enough dispelled by the sun.
Synonyms:

disperse
(transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
- 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.1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01
- The fate of the railway from Ballater to Braemar has been invested with an air of mystery, which has never been completely dispelled. It has been suggested that Queen Victoria was opposed to a railway in the vicinity of Balmoral Castle, and intervened personally to secure the abandonment of the...1957 January, H. A. Vallance, “The Deeside Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 6
Synonyms:

cast away, cast off
(Africa, transitive) To get rid of or manage without.

Noun

dispel (plural dispels)

An act or instance of dispelling.
- “My dispel didn't work,” she said finally. “He wasn't a blood witch, Sunny,” I said.2008, Caitlin Kittredge, Night Life

dispel meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

dispel in Tamil

இன்றியமையத் தக்க, கட்டாயத் தேவை இல்லாத

dispel in Urdu

بھگانا, دفع کرنا, دور کرنا, ذائل کرنا

dispel in Bengali

দূর করা, ঘুচিয়ে দেওয়া

dispel in Malayalam

ചിതറിക്കുക, അകറ്റുക, ഓടിക്കുക, അപ്രത്യക്ഷമാക്കുക, ഇല്ലാതാക്കുക

More languagesFewer languages

dispel in Kannada: ಓಡಿಸು, ಚದರಿಸು, ಕೆದರ್ಚು, ತೊಲಗಿಸು
dispel in Arabic: بَدَّدَ baddada, أَزَالَ ʔazāla
dispel in Thai: ขจัด kà-jàt

Examples of dispel in a sentence

Whatever doubts I had were quickly dispelled.
Concerns that cloud seeding might “steal” water from an area a cloud is traveling toward—robbing Peter to water Paul, as it were—have been dispelled.
Admittedly, the most striking feature of his estate did not help to dispel those rumors.

All 21 example sentences with dispel

Synonyms of dispel

Forms of dispel

Verb
third-person singular present	dispels
present participle	dispelling
past participle	dispelled
past	dispelled
Noun
plural	dispels

Past tense of dispel: dispelled

Origin of dispel

From Middle English dispelen, from Latin dispellere (“to disperse; to dispel”).

Words formed from dispel

Words that rhyme with dispel

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Questions about dispel

What does dispel mean?: Dispel means to drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
What is dispel in Tamil?: Dispel in Tamil is இன்றியமையத் தக்க, கட்டாயத் தேவை இல்லாத. See Dispel meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dispel?: Dispel can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce dispel?: Dispel is pronounced [dɪˈspɛɫ].
What is the past tense of dispel?: The past tense of dispel is dispelled.

Words near dispel in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: dispel (page history and authors); dispel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dispel (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Dispel (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dispel (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dispel (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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