Get rid of

Usage examples of dispel.

I sighed and rubbed my face, willing the vision of Akkadian bloodshed to dispel.

Alyssa rubbed the goose bumps on her arms, trying to dispel asudden chill.

Wine was called for, both to dispel the humiliation she had experienced throughout the day, and to relax her before she started dinner and tried to figure out how she was going to pay Belton for his work.

She pressed close to the window and pushed her face into one of the open panes, taking deep breaths to dispel the aromas of the cabin, though the smell of the harbor was no great improvement, rife as it was with the smell of dead fish, sewage, and baking mud.

She rubbed her eyes and blinked, aware that her concentration was dispelling unsettling thoughts about Jinny Hoolets pond.

I had to make, and all the dignity I tried to assume was dispelled by the comical squish-squishing of my moist shoes, a sound horrendously amplified in this vaulted chamber.

Soho was one of a famous group of thirty-five Japanese youths, known as the Kumamoto band, who in 1875 climbed a hill in their native domain of Kumamoto in Kyushu and pledged themselves to Christianity and to propagation of the faith in order to dispel ignorance and enlighten the people.

For some minutes great masses rolled over the surface of the sea, then a breeze sprang up, which rapidly dispelled the mist.

Even the fact that at the expulsion of the Company of Jesus from America no treasure at all was found at any of their colleges or missions did not dispel the conviction that they owned rich mines.

The Nickles acted as a buffer, allowing her and Alec to avoid direct conversation with each other, but nothing could dispel the underlying tension between them.

The cheery blaze helped to dispel the cold Scottish weather creeping in through the roughhewn stone walls of the restored farmhouse.

The gloom was very feebly dispelled by a wavering gaslight in the shedlike front of the shop.

Hence it is evident, that on the part of the adherence, a subsequent mortal sin does not cause the return of mortal sins previously dispelled, else it would follow that by a sin of wastefulness a man would be brought back to the habit or disposition of avarice previously dispelled, so that one contrary would be the cause of another, which is impossible.

Spell traps lurked within the network, killing spells that would be triggered by the breach or inartful dispelling of a ward.

Tim Willows felt the return of his former depression, which had been momentarily dispelled by his triumph over the dog.