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drive out

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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"

  2. rout out, drive out, force out, rouseverb

    force or drive out

    "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M."

  3. expectorate, clear out, drive outverb

    clear out the chest and lungs

    "This drug expectorates quickly"

Wiktionary

  1. drive outverb

    to push or to pull, i.e. to force, (someone or something) out of somewhere

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  1. drive out

    Drive out generally means to force or compel someone or something to leave or depart from a particular place. This can be in a physical, metaphorical, or emotional context.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of drive out in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of drive out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of drive out in a Sentence

  1. Steve Crampton:

    The White House proclaimed the pandemicis over, but as the Pentagon just reiterated, the purge continues, as they systematically drive out of the Coast Guard [and all branches of the military] the best and the brightest, like LTJG Stone and our other plaintiffs, meanwhile, they use cookie-cutter form denial letters citing nonsensical excuses for their religiousdiscrimination. For example, they told LTJG Stone that he was not 'worldwide deployable' due to his unvaccinated status, despite the fact that he had just completedfourworldwide deployments, during which time he missed not a single day of work while no less than12%of his fully vaccinated shipmates were quarantined with COVID.

  2. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

    Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate can not drive out hate: only love can do that.

  3. Atlanta Police:

    Upon arrival, officers spoke with an employee who stated two males entered the location and destroyed a coin machine with a sledgehammer, once the suspects destroyed the machine, they proceeded to remove the cash box from inside the machine then fled the location in a dark grey in color Malibu with a drive out tag.

  4. Joe Barton:

    We have the best technology, the best oil and over time we will drive out Russian oil. We will drive out Saudi, Iranian.

  5. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani:

    In Syria, when our first objective is to drive out terrorists and combating terrorists to defeat them, we have no solution other than to strengthen the central authority and the central government of that country as a central seat of power, so I think today everyone has accepted that President Assad must remain so that we can combat the terrorists.


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