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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
