dispel
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
[dɪˈspɛɫ]
Definition of dispel
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
“The clouds and mist were soon enough dispelled by the sun.”
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verb
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(transitive)To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
“The clouds and mist were soon enough dispelled by the sun.”
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(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.”
“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 line beyond Ballater.”
- (Africa, transitive)To get rid of or manage without.
noun
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An act or instance of dispelling.
““My dispel didn't work,” she said finally. “He wasn't a blood witch, Sunny,” I said.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English dispelen, from Latin dispellere (“to disperse; to dispel”).
Words you can make from dispel
86 playable · top: LISPED (9 pts)
Best play lisped 9 points6-letter words
2 words5-letter words
17 words4-letter words
33 words- DEPS 7 pts
- DIPS 7 pts
- PEDI 7 pts
- PEDS 7 pts
- PIED 7 pts
- PLED 7 pts
- SPED 7 pts
- LIPE 6 pts
- LIPS 6 pts
- LISP 6 pts
- PIES 6 pts
- PILE 6 pts
- PLIE 6 pts
- SIPE 6 pts
- SLIP 6 pts
- DEIL 5 pts
- DELI 5 pts
- DELS 5 pts
- DESI 5 pts
- DIEL 5 pts
- DIES 5 pts
- ELDS 5 pts
- IDES 5 pts
- IDLE 5 pts
- LIDS 5 pts
- LIED 5 pts
- SIDE 5 pts
- SILD 5 pts
- SLED 5 pts
- SLID 5 pts
- ISLE 4 pts
- LEIS 4 pts
- LIES 4 pts
3-letter words
23 words2-letter words
10 wordsHooks
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