Dispel vs Vanish - What's the difference?
dispel | vanish |
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 become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished , pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
(lb) To become equal to zero.
:The function f(x)=x2 vanishes at x=0.
(phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.
As verbs the difference between dispel and vanish
is that dispel is to drive away by scattering, or to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate while vanish is to become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.As a noun vanish is
the brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.dispel
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* Objects: cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions, objections.Anagrams
*vanish
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* disappearDerived terms
* vanishing sprayNoun
(vanishes)- a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill.
- o as in old ordinarily ends with a vanish of oo as in foot.
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