DRIVE OFF

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Example:

The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers

Synonyms:

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "drive off" 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 off"):

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