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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)

Upstairs, in the solemn echoing drive she let four taxi cabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with grey upholstery, and in this we slid out from the mass of the station into the glowing sunshine.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)