Definition of "dispel"

dispel

verb
third-person singular simple present dispels, present participle dispelling, simple past and past participle dispelled
1. (transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
2. (transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
  Quotations
  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.
  1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 01
noun
plural dispels
1. An act or instance of dispelling.
  Quotations
  “My dispel didn't work,” she said finally. “He wasn't a blood witch, Sunny,” I said.
  2008, Caitlin Kittredge, Night Life‎