Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) to push or to pull, i.e. to force, (someone or something) out of somewhere
WordNet
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: chase away, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off]
force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M." [syn: rout out, force out, rouse]
clear out the chest and lungs; "This drug expectorates quickly" [syn: expectorate, clear out]
Usage examples of "drive out".
George Emerson, Miss Eleanor Lavish, Miss Charlotte Bartlett, and Miss Lucy Honeychurch Drive Out in Carriages to See a View.
And with all our hearts we desired and still desire to lead you back to the unity of the Holy Church and to drive out from your heart the said foul heresy, that so you may save your soul and preserve your body and soul from the destruction in hell, and we have exerted our utmost endeavor by various fitting methods to convert to salvation.
Seeing the huge, hollow trunk of a fallen tree near, and not wishing to be wet through, Ayrault fired several solid shots from his revolver into the cavity, to drive out any wild animals there might be inside, and then hurriedly crawled in, feet first.
Ultimately, the United States will rearm and be able to drive out the Germans.
Finally, her husband, knowing that she liked to drive out, picked up a second-hand dogcart, which, with new lamps and a splash-board in striped leather, looked almost like a tilbury.
When we got to town we decided to drive out to see the mines, going off the road onto what I thought was hard clay soil, right up to the edge of a huge open pit.
If you would see how charming a farming country can be, drive out on the highway towards Thun.
Heidi did not know it is was winter or summer, for the walls and windows she looked out upon showed no change, and she never went beyond the house except on rare occasions when Clara was well enough to drive out, and then they only went a very little way, as Clara could not bear the movement for long.
She had been led through the best galleries, had been taken to the chief points of view, had been shown the grandest ruins and the most glorious churches, and she had ended by oftenest choosing to drive out to the Campagna where she could feel alone with the earth and sky, away-from the oppressive masquerade of ages, in which her own life too seemed to become a masque with enigmatical costumes.
But the time had come for her to retire, to drive out of the Beltway at last.
On the drive out to Westchester I learned that she was an analyst for a municipal-fund outfit.
But remember, it will not keep quite till noonday even in the coolest cellar, but drive out the stopples long ere that and follow westward the steps of Aurora.
The only way I can get this constitutional convention moving is to make a cattle drive out of it.
All that remained to be done was drive out the horses, collect the civilians, and organize the fighting retreat back to the docks.