dispel
verb (used with object)
to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate.
were 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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Indeed, Nelson and his thousands of other colleagues in the free press were dispelling hogwash on all sides the moment they arrived in the old city.
From Time Magazine Archive
The piles of smoke which lay above the valley began to rise, and were dispelling rapidly; and streaks of livid lightning were dancing through the masses of clouds that impended over the western hills.
From The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
The first gleams of dawn were dispelling the night, and against a dark gray sky she saw the branches of thickly crowding trees.
From The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye
