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Dispel

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to make a feeling, belief, or doubt disappear
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Stage 1 of 2
dispellere
Latin · ancient
"to drive apart, to scatter"
to drive apart, to scatter, from dis- (apart) and pellere (to drive)
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Stage 2 of 2
dispel
English · 1400s
"to drive away or eliminate a feeling or belief"
settled as the English word for driving away doubts or fears
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