DRIVE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drive out mean? 

• DRIVE OUT (verb)
  The verb DRIVE OUT has 3 senses:

1. force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

2. force or drive out

3. clear out the chest and lungs

  Familiarity information: DRIVE OUT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRIVE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

chase away; dispel; drive away; drive off; drive out; run off; turn back

Context example:

The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers

Hypernyms (to "drive out" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Verb group:

drive out; force out; rouse; rout out (force or drive out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "drive out"):

fire (drive out or away by or as if by fire)

clear the air (dispel differences or negative emotions)

banish (drive away)

shoo; shoo away; shoo off (drive away by crying 'shoo!')

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Force or drive out

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

drive out; force out; rouse; rout out

Context example:

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

Hypernyms (to "drive out" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Verb group:

chase away; dispel; drive away; drive off; drive out; run off; turn back (force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "drive out"):

hunt (chase away, with as with force)

smoke out (drive out with smoke)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Clear out the chest and lungs

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

clear out; drive out; expectorate

Context example:

This drug expectorates quickly

Hypernyms (to "drive out" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

‘I shall drive out in the park at five as usual,’ she said as she left him. I heard no more.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And their function is to catch all the young fellows attending the university, to drive out of their minds any glimmering originality that may chance to be there, and to put upon them the stamp of the established.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)