- 1消除、打消、驅散（疑慮、謠言、恐懼）
To dispel something is to make it go away — almost always a belief, a , a fear, a doubt, or a feeling, not a chair or a person. You dispel worries, dispel the idea that…, dispel . The word has a slightly formal, careful feel; in easy talk you might say clear up a doubt, or get rid of a fear. Though actually, the old Latin behind it was about driving things apart, like a crowd; in the English you will meet, it is the mind-things that get driven off. You dispel something (it takes an object). A fog can be said to be dispelled in careful writing, but students will meet doubts and myths far more often.
組成From Middle English dispelen, from Latin dispellere (to drive apart, to dispel): dis- (apart) + pellere (to drive).
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dispelverb[dɪˈspɛɫ]
- 1
To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
- The clouds and mist were soon enough dispelled by the sun.
- 2
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.
- 3
To get rid of or manage without.
dispelnoun[dɪˈspɛɫ]
- 1
An act or instance of dispelling.
- “My dispel didn't work,” she said finally. “He wasn't a blood witch, Sunny,” I said.
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