dispel
verb (used with object)
to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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Perhaps most important, though, Mr Gatti will have dispelled the suspicion that this outstanding novelist was a man.
From Economist ● Oct. 5, 2016