单词 | drive out |
释义 | drive out (once / 762 pages) v WORD FAMILY drive out: driven out, drives out, driving out, drove out USAGE EXAMPLESWhen he came back up, he told me soldiers had arrested Ade Coker as he drove out of the editorial offices of the Standard. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) The jihadist group was driven out of Qaraqosh in October, two years after taking over the village, causing thousands of its Christian residents to flee. BBC(Nov 24, 2016) Finally, the handbag companies began to sue the landlords of the buildings, who in turn drove out the purse vendors. New York Times(Nov 20, 2016) 1v force or drive out Syn|Hypo|Hyper force out, rouse, rout out chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, run off, turn back force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings hunt chase away, with as with force smoke outdrive out with smoke displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 2v force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings Syn|Hypo|Hyper chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, run off, turn back force out, rouse, rout out force or drive out frighten drive out by frightening firedrive out or away by or as if by fire clear the airdispel differences or negative emotions banishdrive away shoo, shoo away, shoo offdrive away by crying `shoo!' displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 3v clear out the chest and lungs Syn|Hyper clear out, expectorate remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
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