Drive out

verb

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Verb
  1. 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. 2
    clear out the chest and lungs wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings wordnet
  5. 5
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, out.
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  1. 6
    force or drive out wordnet

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