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drive off

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off, run offverb

    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"

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  1. drive offverb

    To force to leave or go away.

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  1. drive off

    Drive off is a phrasal verb that generally means to leave a particular place in a vehicle or to cause someone else to leave a certain place by showing hostility or through a particular action. It can also mean to repel or ward off something like an attack or a threat.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of drive off in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of drive off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of drive off in a Sentence

  1. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko:

    There is a ceasefire, or there isn't. It depends on how you look at it. You can say that we managed to halt the offensive drive off the aggressor. Ukraine has withdrawn the lion's share of its rocket and heavy artillery systems. The Russian-backed fighters have also withdrawn a significant amount.

  2. Steve Bernal:

    It's a natural reaction, it's better to hit them and sacrifice than to drive off the road and lose control.

  3. Zora Neale Hurston:

    Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

  4. Diane Swint:

    You can't have 40 people in a factory trying to get out the tiny entrance and drive off to Chipotle to wait in line for 30 minutes. That is a very unsafe thing to do, in a high rise, you can't have folks all try to pile into an elevator.

  5. Kyle Larson:

    I don’t really have much wet-weather experience, so it was kind of cool to figure that out, honestly didn’t drive way different. You could still slow down good, turn good. Drive-off was easy to spin your tires, but other than that, it was kind of fun to chase the grip throughout the portions where it would start drying. So it was pretty fun and yeah, I think they’ve got a pretty good product that we could honestly start racing with right away if we needed to on these short tracks.


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