dispel
verb (used with object)
to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate.
was dispelling
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past progressiveof dispel.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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As early as 1646, John Greaves’s “Pyramidographia, or, a Description of the Pyramids in Egypt,” was dispelling myths about those mystifying structures.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2013
But what seemed uppermost in her mind was dispelling rumors that Sukarno had lost control at home and was about to go into exile in Japan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Already Monica's friendliness was dispelling that feeling of nervous resentment and shyness occasioned by the encounter with Dorothy and Phyllis.
From Just Gerry by Christine Chaundler
Mrs. Shelby was seated in her comfortable parlor, where a cheerful hickory fire was dispelling the chill of the late autumn evening.
From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Watching her, Andrea felt, that by all this playful commotion, she was dispelling from her mother all that his verses had possibly instilled into her mind.
From The Child of Pleasure by Georgina Harding
