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Definition of Drive away
1. Verb. Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings. "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"
Specialized synonyms: Frighten, Fire, Clear The Air, Banish, Shoo, Shoo Away, Shoo Off
Generic synonyms: Displace, Move
Related verbs: Drive Out, Force Out, Rouse, Rout Out
Definition of Drive away
1. Verb. (&lit) To depart by driving a vehicle. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To force someone or something to leave ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drive Away
Literary usage of Drive away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, with Historical Surveys by Charles F Horne (1917)
"... and infection which Angra Mainyu has created against the bodies of mortals.
19. " I drive away all manner of sickness and death, all the Yatus and ..."
2. A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions. by Frederick Marryat (1839)
"... and very probably a successful one, to drive away thority has no means of
contact or explanation. It is difficult even to ascertain what amount of ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... were believed to disperse storms and pestilence, drive away devils, and
extinguish fire,- In France it is still by no means unusual to ring church bells ..."
4. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"the false teachers and ministers to drive away from God, and his truth, and light,
and those have been the devil's servants, and the wages he gives them is ..."
5. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"Enough, I sought to drive away The lazy hours of peaceful day; Slight cause will
then suffice to guide 80 A Knight's free footsteps far and wide, ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... an invocation to Christ to give His creatures power to cure the sick, to purify
the soul, to drive away impure spirits, and to wipe out sins. ..."
7. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1903)
"... if he did so, that the two would drive away his customers, or break up his
business by violence, threats, or like means; it would get beyond the domain ..."
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