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drive away

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drive away (third-person singular simple present drives away, present participle driving away, simple past drove away, past participle driven away)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive,‎ away.
    This car's a real bargain, and you could drive it away this afternoon!
  2. (idiomatic) 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.
    • 2009 June 10, Football, The Guardian:
      Sébastien Bassong is being driven away by the "madness" at Newcastle United, a source close to the Frenchman has told the local Evening Chronicle newspaper.
    • 2011, Manu Joseph, “Bullshit as a Cultural Space”, in Urban Voice 4: New Indian Writing‎[1], Leadstart Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 108:
      We would like to believe in the enchanting influence of Gandhigiri as the single absolute force that drove away the whites who probably went muttering, 'bloody Indians', an expression that was enthusiastically attributed to Englishmen by innumerable Hindi films.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:drive away.

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