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