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chase away

v. force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers" [syn: drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off]

Usage examples of "chase away".

A couple of times ranch work had kept Chase away, but this was the first time Maggie hadn't shown up.

They had shooed Chase away from the ICU and, that evening, when they were confident Tall Man would survive, had urged him to go home and sleep.

She turned the picture face down and forced all her thoughts about Chase away.

They did little to chase away the gloomy atmosphere inside the tent, but at least the smell of the burning oil helped cover the heavy stench of sweat, animals, and manure.

And I would chase away my pursuers and set them on some eternal treadmill, a path to nowhere.

It would have taken only a moment to cut the traces and chase away the horses, but I had been in a panic to get my mistress and the prince away.