单词 | dispel |
释义 | dispelv. 1. transitive. To drive away in different directions or in scattered order; to disperse by force, dissipate (e.g. clouds, darkness, doubts, fears, etc.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > dispel (cloud, gloom, or immaterial things) overdriveOE discuss?c1400 digesta1513 profligate1542 depel?1548 foil1548 sperse1580 disparkle1601 redisperse1621 dispela1631 fray1635 dissipate1691 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 170 More clouds then they could..dispell and scatter. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 210 Lamps..enough to dispell the greatest darknesse. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 530 He..gently rais'd Their fainted courage, and dispel'd their fears. View more context for this quotation 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 63 His apprehensions were soon dispelled. 1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. i. viii. 90 He dispelled the illusions of Lewis. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid i in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 80 Ills more dire ye have suffered; and these too Heaven will dispel. 2. intransitive (for reflexive). To become dissipated or scattered, as a cloud or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away in all directions > move away in all directions (of things) spreada1382 dissipe1597 dispel1643 dissipate1660 break1827 to spread off1850 1643 Kingdomes Weekly Intellig. No. 7. 55 [He] still hangs as a cloud over Plimmouth, but it dispells every day. 1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems ii. 263 Melt, and dispel, ye spectre-doubts. 1840 Blackwood's Mag. 48 270 Conventions..in constant succession bubble up, form, and dispel. Derivatives diˈspelling adj. esp. in combination, as care-dispelling, that dispels care. ΚΠ 1827 Spirit of Eng. Mag. 15 Dec. 220/1 What a bland and care-dispelling feeling! diˈspellent n. (also dispellant) a dispelling agent. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > eradication or extirpation > one who or that which eradicates or extirpates extirperc1503 voiderc1528 rooter1560 disperser1580 depeller1597 eradicator1659 extirpator1706 dispeller1717 uprooter1828 dispellent1869 extirpationist1881 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > driving away in all directions > dispelling > that which dispeller1717 scatterer1744 dispellent1869 dissipater1894 1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Aug. 10 The change of scene..will often act as a good dispellant. diˈspeller n. a person who or thing which dispels. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > eradication or extirpation > one who or that which eradicates or extirpates extirperc1503 voiderc1528 rooter1560 disperser1580 depeller1597 eradicator1659 extirpator1706 dispeller1717 uprooter1828 dispellent1869 extirpationist1881 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > driving away in all directions > dispelling > that which dispeller1717 scatterer1744 dispellent1869 dissipater1894 1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 77 It is an admirable dispeller of certain Tumors. 1836 F. Mahony Watergrasshill Carousal in Rel. Father Prout (1859) 78 A dispeller of sorrow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < v.a1631 |
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