Dispel vs Impel - What's the difference?
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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.
To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation (contrast with propel, to compel or drive extrinsically).
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, chapter=2 To drive forward; to propel an object.
As verbs the difference between dispel and impel
is that dispel is to drive away by scattering, or to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate while impel is to urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation (contrast with propel, to compel or drive extrinsically).dispel
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* Objects: cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions, objections.Anagrams
*impel
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(impell)citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
