Past tense of dispel; drove away, scattered, or caused to vanish.
From dispel (from Latin dispellere) + -ed (past tense marker). This is the regular past tense of the common verb 'dispel.'
When someone's fears were 'dispelled,' it's like those worries were chased away by facts or evidence. The word has an almost magical quality—something vanishes when it's dispelled!
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