chase away

chase away
verb
force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
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Drive away potential burglars

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drive away bad thoughts

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dispel doubts

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The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers

Syn: ↑drive out, ↑turn back, ↑drive away, ↑dispel, ↑drive off, ↑run off
Hypernyms: ↑move, ↑displace
Hyponyms:
Verb Group: ↑rout out, ↑drive out, ↑force out, ↑rouse
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody

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Something ——s somebody

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ˌchase a ˈway [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they chase away he/she/it chases away present participle chasing away past tense chased away past participle chased away] literary phrasal verb
to get rid of something unpleasant
Thesaurus: to get rid of something or someonesynonym remove by cuttinghyponym
Main entry: chase

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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