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Drive out
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Verb
- 1 To push or to pull, i.e. to force, (someone or something) out of somewhere. idiomatic
"In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out of the Hedjaz by Ibn Saud, and a state of war sprang up between the new kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan."
- 2 clear out the chest and lungs wordnet
- 3 To set closely; to take up less space because the typesetter uses type that is thinner than the copy or the typesetter whites out more or squeezes in more lines on each page. obsolete
- 4 force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings wordnet
- 5 Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, out.
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- 6 force or drive out wordnet
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