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DRIVE OUT

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clear out the chest and lungs

Example:

This drug expectorates quickly

Synonyms:

clear out; drive out; expectorate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 2

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 out" 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 out"):

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Force or drive out

Example:

The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M.

Synonyms:

drive out; force out; rouse; rout out

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "drive out" 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:

chase away; dispel; drive away; drive off; drive out; run off; turn back (force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings)

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

hunt (chase away, with as with force)

smoke out (drive out with smoke)

Sentence frames:

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

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