drive off

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

drive off - 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" chase away, dispel, drive away, drive out, run off, turn back frighten - drive out by frightening move, displace - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" fire - drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism" clear the air - dispel differences or negative emotions; "The group called a meeting to finally clear the air" banish - drive away; "banish bad thoughts"; "banish gloom" shoo, shoo away, shoo off - drive away by crying `shoo!' drive out, rouse, rout out, force out - force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M."

Translations

? drive off

vi

(person, car) → weg- or abfahren

(Golf) → abschlagen

vt sep

person, enemy → vertreiben

she was driven off in a big Mercedes → sie fuhr in einem großen Mercedes weg; he was driven off in an ambulance → er wurde in einem Krankenwagen weggebracht or abtransportiert