Lexic.us

Definition of Drive out

1. Verb. Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings. "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"

2. Verb. Force or drive out. "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M."

3. Verb. Clear out the chest and lungs. "This drug expectorates quickly"

Definition of Drive out

1. Verb. (idiomatic) to push or to pull, i.e. to force, (someone or something) out of somewhere ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drive Out

drive-time drive-volley drive Irish tandem drive around drive at drive away drive back drive by shooting drive by shootings drive home

drive in drive line drive line system drive off drive offs drive out (current term) drive someone crazy drive someone up the wall drive the porcelain bus drive time

drive times drive truck drive up drive wheel drive wheels driveabilities driveability driveable driveaway drivebolt

Literary usage of Drive out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"Then mill the Lord drive out all these Jos. 8: Land seize upon the city: Jud. 1:21. the children of Benjamin did not drive out 27.did Manasseh drive out ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
""Is it," asks GOOCH, who likes to do everything in its proper season, " the right time for driving in the Bois f " " Dey all drive out," ..."

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