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drive away



Definitions

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drive away
           This car's a real bargain, and you could drive it away this afternoon!
     1. v. To force someone or something to leave
           I managed to drive the vultures away by shouting and waving my arms about.
           Unsanitary conditions are driving away business.
Analysis
drive
     1. n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
           Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
     2. n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
     3. n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
     4. n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
away
     1. adv. From a place, hence.
           He went away on vacation.
     2. adv. Aside; off; in another direction.
     3. adv. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
     4. adv. (as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away.

Example Sentences

You want to drive away the patrons? 



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