Dispel vs Emphatic - What's the difference?
dispel | emphatic |
To drive away by scattering, or to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
Characterized by emphasis.
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, year=2012
, date=June 28
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, title=Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal
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Stated with conviction.
belonging to set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to
(phonology) of obstruent consonants in Semitic languages.
As a verb dispel
is to drive away by scattering, or to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate.As an adjective emphatic is
characterized by emphasis.As a noun emphatic is
(phonology) an emphatic consonant.dispel
English
Verb
Usage notes
* Objects: cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions, objections.Anagrams
*emphatic
English
Alternative forms
* emphatick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Yet when play restarted the Czech was a train that kept on running over Nadal. After breaking Nadal in the opening game of the final set, he went 2-0 up and later took the count to 4-2 with yet another emphatic ace – one of his 22 throughout.}}
- He gave me an emphatic no when I asked him out.
