Third person singular present tense of dispel; drives away, scatters, or causes to vanish.
From dispel + -s (third person singular present tense marker). Modern standard spelling of the verb form.
When someone says 'sunlight dispels darkness,' it's one of those perfect word pairs—the meaning feels visual and immediate because the word almost sounds like the action it describes.
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