dispel

• And the first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. —  Euvin Naidoo on investing in Africa
• One myth that you seem to partially dispel is the '60s adage, "To get a good job, get a good education." —  post-gazette.com - News
• Friedman actually reinforces the first "myth" he set out to try to dispel, a "myth" further reinforced by the fact that our new envoy to Kabul, Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry, is not a diplomat but the former top military commander in Afghanistan. —  Brave New Films blog
• And the development outside was not less remarkable than the development within It is astonishing how our prejudices change from youth to middle age, even without any remarkable interposition of fortune; I do not say dissipate, or even dispel, which is much more doubtful--but they change. —  Phoebe, Junior
• To sit by and listen to that conversation, feeling every moment how utterly he and she were, after all, strangers to one another, how completely unbroken was the solitude that she had craved to dispel--that had been horrible. —  The Daughters of Danaus

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