verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dispel/lift the gloom (= make people feel less sad )
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Now for some good news to dispel the gloom.
ease/allay/dispel sb’s fears (= help someone stop being afraid )
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Frank eased my fears about not being able to speak the local language.
explode/dispel/debunk a myth (= show that it is not true )
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Our goal is to debunk the myth that science is boring.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
doubt
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Jean had even managed to dispel my doubts about your sincerity.
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He worked to dispel his doubts about his friend as though to pass another test, like his ordeal in the park.
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Athletics: Morrell dispels fitness doubts .
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Schoonover hopes that having the theater functioning will finally dispel any lingering doubts that the project is moving forward.
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It grew rapidly, however, soon dispelling all doubts .
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A formal papal judgement on this point would have dispelled all doubts .
fear
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The outcome of yesterday's case could help dispel these fears .
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Colonel Calderon tried to dispel their fears and to persuade them that no attempt on their lives was contemplated.
myth
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The intensive study of demographic records through the technique of family reconstitution has dispelled many myths .
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It further calls for discussion within the trade union movement on this question, with a view to dispelling the myths that surround homosexuality.
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In this respect there is sometimes a need to dispel some of the myths which surround alcohol.
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It aims at dispelling the myths about old age and at building a network of associations concerned with the issues of aging.
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Direct contact helps dispel myths and dissolves stereotypes.
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Before proceeding further it would perhaps be as well to dispel one or two myths .
notion
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These two fine packages should dispel that notion .
■ VERB
help
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They may help to dispel some of the arrogant delusions prevalent in the country.
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A feeling for chronology, gradually acquired, should help to dispel confusion.
try
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Colonel Calderon tried to dispel their fears and to persuade them that no attempt on their lives was contemplated.
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Hicks brushed aside the blue haze of his cigar and felt suddenly that he was trying to dispel more than cigar smoke.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In an interview Monday, the Foreign Affairs Secretary tried to dispel doubts about his handling of the crisis.
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The Central Bank attempted to dispel rumours of a possible financial crisis.
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We hope to dispel the belief that scientists work in isolation in windowless rooms.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But that discomfiture is considerably dispelled by the infrequency of prior-restraint cases.
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Fearsome worry about the horrible outcomes of not doing schoolwork is difficult to dispel .
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Her foster brother's misinformation must be dispelled, but what did she say?
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Milton has already dispelled our traditional view of an awesome, bestial figure, in favour of one who possesses a destroyed beauty.
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Rising to his feet, he touched the light switch, dispelling the gathering gloom, before striding through to his office.
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Such anxieties, however, were soon dispelled.
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We shall never be friends until both your anger is dispelled and my guilt atoned.