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shoo away

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Verb1.shoo away - drive away by crying `shoo!'
chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back - 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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On spotting the elephants, the locals crowded around and looked for some means to save their cultivated lands by trying to shoo away and divert the herd.
Anxious Aslam Bhatt pointed towards his gate and made a desperate plea to shoo away the Army patrol that had stopped to check an unfamiliar vehicle in this remote north Kashmir village of Taras Kandi.
In this game, the bigger birds would shoo away the small ones - just as we humans do.
 
 
 
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