Definition of Dispels

1. Verb. (third-person singular of dispel) ¹

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Definition of Dispels

1. dispel [v] - See also: dispel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispels

dispauperizing
dispaupers
dispeace
dispeaces
dispeed
dispeeded
dispeeding
dispeeds
dispel
dispell'd
dispellable
dispelled
dispeller
dispellers
dispelling
dispels (current term)
dispence
dispenced
dispences
dispend
dispended
dispender
dispenders
dispending
dispends
dispensability
dispensable
dispensableness
dispensaries
dispensary

Literary usage of Dispels

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"PIERRE, " that the rising of the moon dispels the clouds very perceptibly. " The rising moon dispels the vapours with which the air is impregnated. ..."

2. The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem : in Six Cantosby William Hayley, Maria Flaxman, William Blake by William Hayley, Maria Flaxman, William Blake (1803)
"... But long her wakeful lids refuse to close, For curiosity dispels repose. Her busy mind the mystic veil would pierce, That hides the author of the ..."

3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"... must produce evidence which carries conviction to the human mind; a process which in its own peculiar manner dispels doubt Warren v. Warren, 29 NY Supp. ..."

4. The Island of Nantucket: What it was and what it is : Being a Complete Index by Edward K Godfrey (1882)
"... Restores old wounds, dispels the glooms, And brings the callous, feeling. Then let religious maniacs prate. And on the treaty bounce it; Here invalids ..."

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