drive away

drive away
verb
force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings (Freq. 1)
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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: ↑chase away, ↑drive out, ↑turn back, ↑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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ˌdrive a ˈway [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they drive away he/she/it drives away present participle driving away past tense drove away past participle driven away] phrasal verb
to make someone stop wanting something or stop wanting to be with someone

Increasing prices will only drive customers away.

Thesaurus: to have an effect on someone's emotions or attitudessynonym
Main entry: drive

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drive away [phrasal verb]
drive (someone) away or drive away (someone) : to cause or force (someone) to leave especially by making a situation unpleasant or unattractive

The store's high prices are driving away customers.

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Main Entry: ↑drive

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ˌdrive aˈway | ˌdrive sb/sth aˈway derived
to leave in a vehicle; to take sb away in a vehicle

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We heard him drive away.

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Someone drove the car away in the night.

Main entry: ↑drivederived

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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