different between dispel vs debunk

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: di?spel
• Rhymes: -?l
• IPA^(key): [d??sp??]

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
2. (transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.

   • 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.

Usage notes

• Common nouns collocating with "dispel": cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions, objections.

Translations

Noun

dispel (plural dispels)

1. 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.

Related terms

• dispulsion

Anagrams

• Spidle, diples, disple, lisped, pleids, spiled

English

Etymology

de- +? bunk (from bunkum, from Buncombe County) 1923

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /di??b??k/, /di??b??k/
• (US) enPR: d?-b?ngk?, d?-b?ngk?, IPA^(key): /d??b??k/, /?di??b??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Verb

debunk (third-person singular simple present debunks, present participle debunking, simple past and past participle debunked)

1. (transitive) To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something.

   The explosion story was thoroughly debunked on National Public Radio in November 1999.

Translations

Anagrams

• bunked