to drive out
124
3.8
- phrasal verb
- /draɪv aʊt/
- All he asked me to do was drive you out of town.
- drive out of business
- drive out vendors
- drive out of the market
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Watch on YouTubeAnd when you understand your authority, you will drive out demons.
- And when you understand your authority, you will drive out demons.
- And then he got, you know, Americans came, saved Kuwait and drove out Saddam Hussein and his forces.
- Whatever the point is, wherever that saying came from, you use light to drive out darkness.
- The bad money would drive out the good.
- And if you look at ancient art, you see people hunting lions, trying to drive them out of these these wastelands, Right.
- Because, you know, we, we've had a lecturer who is kind of driven out of Harvard for seeing there are two sexes.
- And so they're like we we need to drive them out.
- And they've been driven out of Harky and, and the area immediately surrounding Harky.
- We need to drive out and exterminate prejudice and wrong headed ideas.
- European starlings efficiently stripped the landscape, driving out other birds, the smashed but salvageable front end.
- A palace of diamonds, a House of amethyst and crystal from which the ancient darkness had been driven out by glory.
- They have no intention of driving out old businesses, but they are really visible presences on the street.
Examples
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We do not expect to be driven out of this land.
Academic text (2005) -
Just drive us out of here.
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Jeff, the minute you drive out of this place, you are not going to want to be with me.
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And when you understand your authority, you will drive out demons.
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The elders must drive you out!
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This'll definitely drive them out.
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I want you to shatter his operations, destroy his establishments and drive that bastard out of this city.
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We have, instead, warring armies striving to drive out the competition and establish their own sphere of influence.
Academic text (2000) -
Yes, you're about to lose this concept and if you don't watch out, you're going to drive out those people from what should have been and is a noble tradition.
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The firefighters worked hard to drive out the flames before they spread to nearby houses.
Synonyms
524
3.0
Force someone to leave a place or group
472
2.8
To make someone or something leave a place
188
5.0
Force someone to leave a place, such as a school or country, often by official order
129
3.0
Make someone leave a job or group because of a problem
87
4.6
To make someone leave a house or land by court order
75
3.4
To force a person, animal, or feeling to go away
72
4.4
To make someone leave a job by pressure or threats
50
6.2
Force someone to leave a group or place because others reject them
47
4.2
Force someone to leave a place
40
4.6
To make a feeling or idea go away
40
4.7
Make someone or something go away
38
2.6
To make people or things leave by scaring them
35
4.0
Force someone or something to leave using threats
24
7.9
Make someone leave quickly and forcefully
20
5.8
Force someone to leave a job or organization suddenly
18
4.9
To make someone leave a place
18
3.3
Make someone or something leave a place by running after and frightening them
16
4.2
To make someone leave a place or job by pressure
14
4.9
To force others out by taking more space, strength or attention
4
5.0
To force someone to leave a place usually because they cause trouble
3
7.1
To force someone or something out of a place by searching
1
8.2
Force someone to leave a place or job
1
4.0
To force someone to leave a place, group or job
To make someone leave quickly to show they are not wanted
Antonyms
How Forceful
107
6.3
188
5.0
70
6.2
- Informal
24
7.9
124
3.8
186
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to force someone or something to leave' is directly derivable from combining 'drive' (to force or move) with 'out' (away from the interior), yielding a clear causative motion away. This phrasal-verb composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and therefore predictable for a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The verb drive out comes from the picture of moving animals or people out of a place: you drive them out by pushing or guiding them away. So, it means 'to force someone to leave'.