drive off

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verb

force to go away;
used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings (Freq. 2)
- Drive away potential burglars
- drive away bad thoughts
- dispel doubts
- The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers
• Syn:
chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, run off
• Hypernyms:
move, displace
• Hyponyms:
frighten, fire, clear the air, banish, shoo off,
shoo, shoo away
• Verb Group:
rout out, drive out, force out, rouse
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody