Verb (used with object), : to dispel the dense fog. ,to dispel her fears.    From Dictionary.com. 

That little emphasized word dispelled the hope that had for a moment asserted itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Original Belle] Reference

That word dispelled the dream and the pain which had held Joan, leaving only the tenderness, magnified now a hundredfold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Border Legion] Reference

"The doubts about the health of the European banks need to be dispelled, which is why the stress tests are so important.".    From Wordnik.com.  [European regulators to publish doomsday scenarios for banks] Reference

Reading the afterword dispelled any hope of that; which is a pity since it seemed like the manga was growing into its potential.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manga Review: Murder Princess, Volume Two | The Anime Blog] Reference

Nor was the idea dispelled when she stopped and faced him in the privacy of her room with her eyes swollen and a trembling under-lip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

There you have it: Another Mallomar myth dispelled!.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Beat: The Cookie Crumbles] Reference

Fears can be dispelled by awareness and information.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Moderate Islam Overcome Aggressive Islamists?] Reference

The aura of enigmatic moral grandeur has been dispelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choosing A New Justice] Reference

All the fears that were articulated have been dispelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phillip Martin: The Mosque Next Door: What Americans Can Learn From Boston's Experience] Reference

This effort dispelled my dream, and I awoke with a start.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Curiosity dispelled the last vestiges of Percy's seasickness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

This was now dispelled by the successful march we had made in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

An illusion quickly dispelled is the meaning of this symbol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference

Fair trials had dispelled the witches and their sorcery long ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Way of Life] Reference

Thus the hallucination that he was premier was forever dispelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

They had a fear of "the wild man" and it had not yet been dispelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference

If Dole had doubts, they were dispelled by a phone call the next day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not In Kansas Anymore] Reference

           By hour's end the yearning for beauty is dispelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Young Aesthetes] Reference

A groan dispelled their collective silence and brought all eyes upon Obie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection] Reference

Whether out of naivete or craftiness, that little dream has now been dispelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Boyle: Is Google Naive, Crafty or Stupid?] Reference

The uncertainties can't be dispelled by low interest rates or lofty reassurances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Impact Of War] Reference

That kind of talk reflects a nervousness that can only be dispelled at the ballot box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear of Hillary] Reference

Now that money circulates freely in South Korea, however, that myth has been dispelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning From The Student] Reference

The little cloud, which had momentarily dimmed the brightness of his sun, was dispelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

A howling mob was upon the field dancing about a huge bonfire which dispelled the falling darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Line] Reference

The uncertainty over the budget outlook can't be dispelled until these issues are broached and settled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memo To Dole: It's Not 1980] Reference

The data, provided in part by Bodog. com, an online-betting site, dispelled a couple of Survivor beliefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A 'Survivor' Team to Not Pick Against] Reference

It dispelled the familiarity of the text and freshened it, and it just took away the clichés of language.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Journey to the Top] Reference

The suspicion can't be entirely dispelled that good old-fashioned power politics might be playing a role as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backsliding in Japan] Reference

In the basement below, there's endless night, only dispelled when Frank makes his portly way downstairs for a new barrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Spring by Richard Francis] Reference

This notion was dispelled by Major David Salmon, the director of the traffic services division of the New York State Police.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making laws to reduce dangerous driver distractions] Reference

Spurling's voice, reinforcing the last echoes of the alarm-clock, dispelled Percy's inclination to roll over for another nap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

So I persisted, and he dispelled my notion that Bill had to walk past a glaring First Lady every time he wanted to go to bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Beat: Clinton on the Couch] Reference

All about him was woven this newness and youth that was dispelled at any moment with a tired lifeless joke that Obie could not resist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection] Reference

And that aura of mistrust is not easily dispelled if, like Tony and Cherie Blair, you're pals of the couple who live in the White House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting The Hang Of Power] Reference

Any doubt over the government's linking the issues was dispelled by Foreign Minister Hector Timerman, an ardent user of Twitter, in June.    From Wordnik.com.  [Argentina Moves to Seize Newsprint Firm] Reference