| VERB | motion | dispel, chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, drive off, run off | force to go away |
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| motion | dispel, disperse, dissipate, break up, scatter | to cause to separate and go in different directions |
| Sounds | dihspeh'l | |
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| Rhymes | Aix-la-Chapelle ... zinfandel / Zinfandel: 95 rhymes with ehl... | |
| Meaning | Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Example | "dispel doubts" | |
| Synonyms | chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, drive off, run off | |
| Narrower | banish | drive away |
| clear the air | dispel differences or negative emotions | |
| fire | drive out or away by or as if by fire | |
| shoo off, shoo, shoo away | drive away by crying 'shoo!' | |
| Broader | move, displace | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
| Similar to | rout out, drive out, force out, rouse | Force or drive out |
| Spanish | ahuyentar, alejar, desvanecer | |
| Meaning | To cause to separate and go in different directions. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | disperse, dissipate, break up, scatter | |
| Narrower | disband | Cause to break up or cease to function |
| Broader | separate, divide | make a division or separation |
| Spanish | disiparse, disipar, dispersar | |
| Catalan | dispersar, dissipar-se, dissipar | |
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