Usually means: Eliminate or drive away beliefs.
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  1. dispel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dispel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dispel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dispel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dispel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dispel, dispel: Wordnik
  7. dispel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dispel: Wiktionary
  9. dispel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dispel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dispel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dispel, dispel: Dictionary.com
  13. dispel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dispel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dispel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dispel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dispel: Rhymezone
  18. dispel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dispel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dispel: Free Dictionary
  21. dispel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. dispel: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. dispel: Legal dictionary

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(Note: See dispelled as well.)

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verb:  (transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
verb:  (transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
noun:  An act or instance of dispelling.

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