Need another word that means the same as “dispel”? Find 15 synonyms and 30 related words for “dispel” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Dispel” are: break up, disperse, dissipate, scatter, chase away, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back, banish, eliminate, dismiss, get rid of, disseminate
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “dispel” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| banish | Expel from a community or group. Banish bad thoughts. |
| break up | Undergo breaking. |
| chase away | Cut a groove into. |
| dismiss | Remove from employment or office, typically on the grounds of unsatisfactory performance. He told his company to dismiss. |
| disperse | Cause to separate. The crowd dispersed. |
| disseminate | Spread throughout an organ or the body. There is a subset of these low grade tumours that can disseminate and migrate. |
| dissipate | Disperse or scatter. He inherited but then dissipated his father s fortune. |
| drive away | Urge forward. |
| drive off | Cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force. |
| drive out | To compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly. |
| eliminate | Eliminate from the body. Let s eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics. |
| get rid of | Succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase. |
| run off | Run, stand, or compete for an office or a position. |
| scatter | Sow by scattering. Scatter the coconut over the icing. |
| turn back | Shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel. |
| asunder | Apart. As wide asunder as pole from pole. |
| away | Out of the way especially away from one s thoughts. Ran away from the lion. |
| circulate | Become widely known and passed on. This letter is being circulated among the faculty. |
| diffuse | Spread or diffuse through. The second argument is more diffuse. |
| diffusion | The spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another. The rapid diffusion of ideas and technology. |
| dispersal | The splitting up of a group of people, causing them to leave in different directions. Colleges had made large dispersals and the shops were filled with books. |
| disperse | Denoting a phase dispersed in another phase as in a colloid. The earlier mist had dispersed. |
| dispersed | Distributed or spread over a considerable extent. Has ties with many widely dispersed friends. |
| dispersion | Spreading widely or driving off. The dispersion of the troops. |
| disseminate | Spread throughout an organ or the body. There is a subset of these low grade tumours that can disseminate and migrate. |
| dissemination | The property of being diffused or dispersed. The dissemination of public information. |
| dissipate | (with reference to a feeling or emotion) disappear or cause to disappear. No power is dissipated in this sort of control element. |
| dissolution | Disintegration; decomposition. Minerals susceptible to dissolution. |
| distract | Prevent (someone) from concentrating on something. It was another attempt to distract attention from the truth. |
| diversify | Enlarge or vary the range of products or the field of operation of (a business. Diversify a course of study. |
| effluence | The process of flowing out. |
| imbue | Fill soak or imbue totally. His works are invariably imbued with a sense of calm and serenity. |
| intersperse | Place at intervals in or among. Deep pools interspersed by shallow shingle banks. |
| perfuse | Permeate or suffuse with a liquid, colour, or quality. Perfuse a liver with a salt solution. |
| pervasiveness | The quality of spreading widely or being present throughout an area or a group of people. The pervasiveness of violence on television. |
| proliferate | Increase rapidly in number; multiply. The science fiction magazines which proliferated in the 1920s. |
| proliferation | A large number of something. A continuing threat of nuclear proliferation. |
| prolix | (of speech or writing) using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy. A prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know. |
| scatter | Sow by scattering. The light is scattered as it strikes particles suspended in the air. |
| scattered | Occurring or found at intervals or various locations rather than all together. Scattered thoughts. |
| spray | A can or container holding a spray. Water sprayed into the air. |
| spread | A bedspread. The rumor spread. |
| sprinkle | Cover (an object or surface) with small drops or particles of a substance. I sprinkled the floor with water. |
| strew | Spread by scattering. Dead bodies strewed the ground. |
| suffuse | Gradually spread through or over. Her cheeks were suffused with colour. |
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