drive off

Speech parts

1. drive off - Noun

2. drive off - Verb

Meaning

force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

drive-off

Synonyms

dispel run off drive out turn back drive away chase away chase start repulse spook shoo leave drive dispute beat
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Antonyms

mass thanks champion aggregate flock beckon
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Hypernyms

move displace

Hyponyms

fire shoo banish shoo off clear the air shoo away

Examples

Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed. Edith Wharton

We'll drive off the side of that bridge when we come to it, Senator Kennedy. Ann Coulter

When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end. Phil Collins

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. Zora Neale Hurston

It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even "realities"; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a "solitary elephant. Emil Cioran

Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you. Janet Evanovich

Close letter words and terms

drive mad drive module drive motor drive on drive oneself drive out