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drive back

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Verb1.drive back - force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"
fight down, oppose, fight, fight back, defend - fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!"
Translations
? drive back
vi (car, person)zurückfahren
vt sep
(= cause to retreat) personzurückdrängen; enemyzurücktreiben, zurückdrängen
(= convey back in vehicle) personzurückfahren


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The coachman was directed to drive back, and as the vehicle turned Williamson was seen by all three, walking leisurely across the pasture.
Turning the horse suddenly he tried to drive back upon her, and so hem her in between the gig and the hedge.
From the deck of our schooner, anchored in the middle of the bay, he indicated by a theatrical sweep of his arm along the jagged outline of the hills the whole of his domain; and the ample movement seemed to drive back its limits, augmenting it suddenly into something so immense and vague that for a moment it appeared to be bounded only by the sky.
 
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