DRIVE AWAY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

Example:

The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers

Synonyms:

chase away; dispel; drive away; drive off; drive out; run off; turn back

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "drive away" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Verb group:

drive out; force out; rouse; rout out (force or drive out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "drive away"):

fire (drive out or away by or as if by fire)

clear the air (dispel differences or negative emotions)

banish (drive away)

shoo; shoo away; shoo off (drive away by crying 'shoo!')

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

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Context examples:

She heard the carriage drive away as she proceeded up stairs.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Then I walked slowly down the drive away from the house intending to wait by the gate.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)