dispel

English

From Middle English dispelen, from Latin dispellere (“to disperse; to dispel”).

dispel (third-person singular simple present dispels, present participle dispelling, simple past and past participle dispelled)

(transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
(transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
- 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828, page 01:
  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 drive away by scattering

Armenian: ցրել (hy) (cʿrel)
Asturian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: разве́йваць (razvjéjvacʹ), рассе́йваць (rassjéjvacʹ)
Bulgarian: разсейвам (bg) (razsejvam), разпръсквам (bg) (razprǎskvam)
Catalan: dissipar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 打消 (zh) (dǎxiāo) (doubts), 驅散／驱散 (zh) (qūsàn)
Czech: rozptýlit
Danish: henvejre
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: verjagen (nl), verdrijven (nl)
Estonian: purustama
Finnish: hälventää, haihduttaa, häivyttää (fi)
French: chasser (fr), dissiper (fr)
German: zerstreuen (de)
Hebrew: הֵפִיג‎ (hefíg), פִּזֵּר‎ (he) (pizér)
Irish: ruaig
Khmer: លុបបំបាត់ជំនឿ (lup bɑmbat cumnɨə)
Maori: whakamahea, tokotoko, whakakorara
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
Occitan: dissipar, dispersar
Polish: rozwiewać
Portuguese: dissipar (pt), dispersar (pt)
Romanian: spulbera (ro)
Russian: разве́ивать (ru) impf (razvéivatʹ), разве́ять (ru) pf (razvéjatʹ), рассе́ивать (ru) impf (rasséivatʹ), рассе́ять (ru) pf (rasséjatʹ), разгоня́ть (ru) impf (razgonjátʹ), разогна́ть (ru) pf (razognátʹ)
Spanish: disipar (es), dispersar (es)
Ukrainian: розві́ювати (rozvíjuvaty), розсі́ювати (rozsíjuvaty)

to remove fears etc.

Czech: rozptýlit pf, rozptylovat impf
Irish: ruaig
Maori: whakamahea
Russian: развеивать (ru) (razveivatʹ), развенчивать (ru) (razvenčivatʹ), изобличать (ru) (izobličatʹ), дезавуировать (ru) (dezavuirovatʹ)

dispel (plural dispels)

An act or instance of dispelling.
- 2008, Caitlin Kittredge, Night Life
  “My dispel didn't work,” she said finally. “He wasn't a blood witch, Sunny,” I said.