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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dispel .
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Examples
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THE WARMTH OF THE MARQUIS’s greeting bolstered Kate’s flagging spirits, and the kindness in his expression dispelled any lingering discomfort occasioned by MacNeill’s sardonic manner.
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THE WARMTH OF THE MARQUIS’s greeting bolstered Kate’s flagging spirits, and the kindness in his expression dispelled any lingering discomfort occasioned by MacNeill’s sardonic manner.
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THE WARMTH OF THE MARQUIS’s greeting bolstered Kate’s flagging spirits, and the kindness in his expression dispelled any lingering discomfort occasioned by MacNeill’s sardonic manner.
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Paladin dispelled the forcewall he had created and started towards the girl, who was staring at him apparently dumbfounded at being rescued.
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"The doubts about the health of the European banks need to be dispelled, which is why the stress tests are so important."
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Reading the afterword dispelled any hope of that; which is a pity since it seemed like the manga was growing into its potential.
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Nor was the idea dispelled when she stopped and faced him in the privacy of her room with her eyes swollen and a trembling under-lip.
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That word dispelled the dream and the pain which had held Joan, leaving only the tenderness, magnified now a hundredfold.
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That little emphasized word dispelled the hope that had for a moment asserted itself.
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I think the shootings, you know, although a lot of people talk in terms of expert sniper, that sort of thing, I think your expert last night kind of dispelled that notion.
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